Parkesburg, PA
Parkesburg, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Parkesburg at the 9th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,233 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Parkesburg's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 8th percentile nationally.
Parkesburg's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 32% of Parkesburg's 1,233 buildings carry Direct exposure and 1.7% carry Indirect; the remaining 66.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Parkesburg ranks
There's little gap between Parkesburg's 9th national percentile and its 7th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Parkesburg ranks 28,729 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,454 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,861 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Parkesburg
At the 9th national percentile, Parkesburg rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Parkesburg
Parkesburg's 66.3% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Parkesburg's 28,729-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Parkesburg, see the exposure-zones guide.