Kittanning, PA
How exposed is Kittanning to wildfire?
Kittanning sits at the 36th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,382 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kittanning at the 37th percentile, close to its 36th-percentile risk score.
Where Kittanning's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 97% of Kittanning's 1,382 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 3% Direct and 0.1% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Kittanning compares
Kittanning's 53rd-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 36th 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, Kittanning ranks 20,120 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,706 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 942 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Kittanning and the insurance market
Kittanning's moderate wildfire rating (36th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 97% of Kittanning'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 1,382 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Kittanning. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Kittanning, see the exposure-zones guide.