New Ringgold, PA
New Ringgold wildfire risk explained
New Ringgold sits at the 56th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 192 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks New Ringgold at the 55th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in New Ringgold (76% of 192 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 24% sit in the Direct zone.
How New Ringgold compares
Within Pennsylvania, New Ringgold ranks higher (92nd percentile) than it does nationally (56th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, New Ringgold ranks 13,972 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,174 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 166 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
New Ringgold and the insurance market
New Ringgold's elevated wildfire rating (56th 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
Because 76% of New Ringgold'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
New Ringgold's 56th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond New Ringgold, see the exposure-zones guide.