Edgewood (Allegheny), PA
Edgewood (Allegheny) wildfire risk explained
Edgewood (Allegheny)'s 1,438 buildings earn a 22nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Edgewood (Allegheny) at the 23rd percentile, close to its 22nd-percentile risk score.
Edgewood (Allegheny)'s building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Edgewood (Allegheny)'s buildings (95.1% of 1,438) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Edgewood (Allegheny) against the rest of the country
Edgewood (Allegheny)'s risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (24th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (22nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Edgewood (Allegheny) ranks 24,625 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,443 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,504 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Edgewood (Allegheny) and the insurance market
At the 22nd national percentile, Edgewood (Allegheny) rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 95.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Edgewood (Allegheny) gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Edgewood (Allegheny)'s figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,438 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Edgewood (Allegheny). The exposure-zones guide covers what Edgewood (Allegheny)'s dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.