Hamburg, PA
How exposed is Hamburg to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Hamburg at the 44th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,621 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 Hamburg at the 42nd percentile, close to its 44th-percentile risk score.
Where Hamburg's buildings actually sit
1,621 buildings are counted in Hamburg, and 87.2% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 12.8% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Hamburg against the rest of the country
Hamburg's 71st-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 44th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hamburg ranks 17,599 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,689 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 579 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hamburg
Hamburg's elevated wildfire rating (44th 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 Hamburg
Because 87.2% of Hamburg's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,621 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Hamburg. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Hamburg, see the exposure-zones guide.