St. Petersburg, PA
St. Petersburg, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, St. Petersburg lands at the 44th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 253 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks St. Petersburg at the 44th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
St. Petersburg's building exposure, zone by zone
Of St. Petersburg's 253 counted buildings, 62.1% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
St. Petersburg against the rest of the country
St. Petersburg's 71st-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 44th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, St. Petersburg ranks 17,601 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,057 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 581 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
St. Petersburg's elevated wildfire rating (44th 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.
Hardening a home in St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg's 62.1% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind St. Petersburg's 17,601-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond St. Petersburg, see the exposure-zones guide.