Southwest Greensburg, PA
Southwest Greensburg wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Southwest Greensburg lands at the 27th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,120 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Southwest Greensburg's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 28th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 99.4% of Southwest Greensburg's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 0.5% Direct and 0.1% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Southwest Greensburg ranks
Southwest Greensburg scores 27th nationally and 32nd 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, Southwest Greensburg ranks 23,142 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,156 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,362 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Southwest Greensburg and the insurance market
At the 27th national percentile, Southwest Greensburg rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Southwest Greensburg's 99.4% 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 Southwest Greensburg's 23,142-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Southwest Greensburg, see the exposure-zones guide.