McKees Rocks, PA
McKees Rocks, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores McKees Rocks at the 24th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 3,120 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks McKees Rocks at the 24th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 99.2% of McKees Rocks's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 0.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
McKees Rocks against the rest of the country
McKees Rocks's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (27th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (24th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, McKees Rocks ranks 24,092 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,268 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,458 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
McKees Rocks and the insurance market
McKees Rocks's moderate wildfire rating (24th 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.
Hardening a home in McKees Rocks
With 99.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, McKees Rocks gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
McKees Rocks's 24th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond McKees Rocks, see the exposure-zones guide.