New Cumberland, PA
New Cumberland, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, New Cumberland lands at the 17th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 3,374 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, New Cumberland's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 17th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
96.1% of New Cumberland's 3,374 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 3.9% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where New Cumberland ranks
There's little gap between New Cumberland's 17th national percentile and its 18th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, New Cumberland ranks 26,045 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,951 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,626 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
New Cumberland and the insurance market
New Cumberland's low wildfire rating (17th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
New Cumberland's 96.1% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
New Cumberland's 17th-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 New Cumberland, see the exposure-zones guide.