New Brighton, PA
New Brighton wildfire risk explained
New Brighton's 2,346 buildings earn a 32nd-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks New Brighton at the 32nd national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where New Brighton's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in New Brighton (99.5% of 2,346 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 0.5% sit in the Direct zone.
Where New Brighton ranks
New Brighton's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (43rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (32nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, New Brighton ranks 21,408 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,615 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,138 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in New Brighton
New Brighton's moderate rating (32nd 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
Because 99.5% of New Brighton's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind New Brighton's 21,408-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond New Brighton, see the exposure-zones guide.