St. Clairsville, PA
St. Clairsville, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts St. Clairsville at the 50th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 42 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, St. Clairsville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 49th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 83.3% of St. Clairsville's 42 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 16.7% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where St. Clairsville ranks
Within Pennsylvania, St. Clairsville ranks higher (82nd percentile) than it does nationally (50th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, St. Clairsville ranks 15,834 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,127 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 374 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in St. Clairsville
St. Clairsville's elevated wildfire rating (50th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 83.3% of St. Clairsville'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 42 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for St. Clairsville. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond St. Clairsville, see the exposure-zones guide.