McKeesport, PA
McKeesport, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores McKeesport at the 28th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 9,675 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks McKeesport at the 28th 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
McKeesport rates 80.2% Minimal exposure against just 3% Direct and 16.9% Indirect — of 9,675 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 9,675 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
McKeesport against the rest of the country
McKeesport's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (34th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (28th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, McKeesport ranks 22,770 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,688 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,318 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
McKeesport's moderate rating (28th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 80.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, McKeesport gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where McKeesport's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind McKeesport's 22,770-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what McKeesport's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.