McConnellsburg, PA
McConnellsburg wildfire risk explained
USFS scores McConnellsburg at the 55th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 561 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts McConnellsburg at the 52nd percentile, close to its 55th-percentile risk score.
Where McConnellsburg's buildings actually sit
561 buildings are counted in McConnellsburg, and 94.5% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 5.5% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
McConnellsburg against the rest of the country
Within Pennsylvania, McConnellsburg ranks higher (91st percentile) than it does nationally (55th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, McConnellsburg ranks 14,255 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,395 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 188 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
McConnellsburg and the insurance market
McConnellsburg's elevated wildfire rating (55th 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
McConnellsburg's 94.5% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind McConnellsburg's 14,255-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond McConnellsburg, see the exposure-zones guide.