Braddock, PA
Braddock, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Braddock at the 24th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,233 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Braddock at the 25th percentile, close to its 24th-percentile risk score.
Where Braddock's buildings actually sit
99.8% of Braddock's 1,233 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 0.2% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Braddock against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Braddock's 24th national percentile and its 28th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Braddock ranks 23,931 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,452 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,435 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Braddock
Braddock'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.
Hardening a home in Braddock
Braddock's 99.8% 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.
Where Braddock's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Braddock's 23,931-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Braddock's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.