New Kingstown, PA
New Kingstown, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts New Kingstown at the 14th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 380 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, New Kingstown's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 15th percentile nationally.
Where New Kingstown's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 74.2% of New Kingstown's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 25.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How New Kingstown compares
There's little gap between New Kingstown's 14th national percentile and its 13th 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 Kingstown ranks 27,146 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,655 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,731 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
New Kingstown and the insurance market
New Kingstown's low rating (14th 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 New Kingstown
Even with 74.2% of New Kingstown outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind New Kingstown's 27,146-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond New Kingstown, see the exposure-zones guide.