Greensburg, PA
Greensburg, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Greensburg at the 28th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 5,806 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Greensburg at the 30th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Greensburg's buildings actually sit
84.1% of Greensburg's 5,806 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 11.5% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 5,806 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Greensburg compares
Greensburg's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (35th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (28th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Greensburg ranks 22,577 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,974 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,299 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Greensburg and the insurance market
At the 28th national percentile, Greensburg 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 84.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Greensburg 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Greensburg's 22,577-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Greensburg, see the exposure-zones guide.