Dormont, PA
Dormont wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Dormont lands at the 21st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 3,542 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Dormont's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 22nd percentile nationally.
Where Dormont's buildings actually sit
Dormont rates 99.8% Minimal exposure against just 0.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 3,542 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Dormont against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Dormont's 21st national percentile and its 23rd percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dormont ranks 24,973 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,727 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,542 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Dormont's moderate wildfire rating (21st 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 Dormont
Even with 99.8% of Dormont outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,542 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Dormont. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Dormont, see the exposure-zones guide.