Pittsburgh, PA
Pittsburgh, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Pittsburgh at the 23rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 103,613 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pittsburgh at the 24th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Pittsburgh's buildings actually sit
Only 3.3% of Pittsburgh's 103,613 buildings carry Direct exposure and 8.1% carry Indirect; the remaining 88.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 103,613 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Pittsburgh against the rest of the country
Pittsburgh's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (26th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (23rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pittsburgh ranks 24,284 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 59 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,482 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh's moderate rating (23rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 88.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Pittsburgh gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Pittsburgh's figures come from
Pittsburgh's 23rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pittsburgh's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.