Bethel Park, PA
Bethel Park, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Bethel Park sits at the 24th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 12,823 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Bethel Park's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 26th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
62.4% of Bethel Park's 12,823 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 19.8% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 12,823 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Bethel Park against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Bethel Park's 24th national percentile and its 27th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bethel Park ranks 24,030 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,188 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,447 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bethel Park
At the 24th national percentile, Bethel Park rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Bethel Park
With 62.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Bethel Park gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 12,823 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Bethel Park. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Bethel Park, see the exposure-zones guide.