Millvale, PA
Millvale wildfire risk explained
Millvale's 1,527 buildings earn a 25th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Millvale at the 25th percentile, close to its 25th-percentile risk score.
Millvale's building exposure, zone by zone
Millvale rates 87.8% Minimal exposure against just 12.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,527 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Millvale ranks
There's little gap between Millvale's 25th national percentile and its 29th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Millvale ranks 23,709 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,051 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,418 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
Millvale's moderate rating (25th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Millvale
With 87.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Millvale 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
Millvale's 25th-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 Millvale, see the exposure-zones guide.