Leetsdale, PA
Leetsdale wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Leetsdale lands at the 30th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 660 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Leetsdale at the 30th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Leetsdale's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Leetsdale (92.3% of 660 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 7.7% sit in the Direct zone.
Leetsdale against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Leetsdale's 30th national percentile and its 38th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Leetsdale ranks 22,107 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,065 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,237 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Leetsdale and the insurance market
At the 30th national percentile, Leetsdale 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
Leetsdale's 92.3% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Leetsdale's 22,107-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Leetsdale, see the exposure-zones guide.