North Vandergrift, PA
North Vandergrift wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, North Vandergrift lands at the 34th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 209 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts North Vandergrift at the 35th percentile, close to its 34th-percentile risk score.
North Vandergrift's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 79.9% of North Vandergrift's 209 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 20.1% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where North Vandergrift ranks
North Vandergrift scores 34th nationally and 48th within Pennsylvania — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, North Vandergrift ranks 20,752 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,532 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,041 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
North Vandergrift and the insurance market
North Vandergrift's moderate rating (34th 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 North Vandergrift
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in North Vandergrift (79.9% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind North Vandergrift's 20,752-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond North Vandergrift, see the exposure-zones guide.