Kingston, PA
Kingston, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Kingston at the 35th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 5,269 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Kingston's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 34th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 90.7% of Kingston's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 0.4% Direct and 8.9% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 5,269 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Kingston against the rest of the country
Within Pennsylvania, Kingston ranks higher (50th percentile) than it does nationally (35th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kingston ranks 20,433 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,276 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 987 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
Kingston's moderate rating (35th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Kingston
With 90.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Kingston gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Kingston's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 5,269 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Kingston. The exposure-zones guide covers what Kingston's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.