Waynesburg, PA
Waynesburg wildfire risk explained
Waynesburg's 1,360 buildings earn a 39th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Waynesburg at the 40th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Waynesburg's buildings actually sit
1,360 buildings are counted in Waynesburg, and 95.5% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 4.5% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Waynesburg ranks
Compare Waynesburg's two percentiles: 59th within Pennsylvania, only 39th nationally — a gap of 21 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Waynesburg ranks 19,363 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,789 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 813 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Waynesburg and the insurance market
Waynesburg's moderate wildfire rating (39th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Waynesburg (95.5% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Waynesburg's 19,363-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Waynesburg, see the exposure-zones guide.