Braddock Hills, PA
How exposed is Braddock Hills to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Braddock Hills at the 24th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 797 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Braddock Hills's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 25th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 87.8% of Braddock Hills's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 12.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Braddock Hills compares
Braddock Hills's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (27th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (24th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Braddock Hills ranks 24,090 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,665 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,456 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Braddock Hills and the insurance market
Braddock Hills's moderate wildfire rating (24th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Braddock Hills's 87.8% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Braddock Hills's 24,090-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Braddock Hills, see the exposure-zones guide.