Hyde Park (Westmoreland), PA
Hyde Park (Westmoreland) wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Hyde Park (Westmoreland) lands at the 35th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 291 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hyde Park (Westmoreland) at the 36th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Hyde Park (Westmoreland)'s building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Hyde Park (Westmoreland) (84.5% of 291 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 15.5% sit in the Direct zone.
Hyde Park (Westmoreland) against the rest of the country
Hyde Park (Westmoreland)'s 51st-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 35th 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, Hyde Park (Westmoreland) ranks 20,369 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,892 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 977 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Hyde Park (Westmoreland) and the insurance market
Hyde Park (Westmoreland)'s moderate wildfire rating (35th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Hyde Park (Westmoreland)'s 84.5% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Hyde Park (Westmoreland)'s figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hyde Park (Westmoreland)'s 20,369-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Hyde Park (Westmoreland)'s dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.