West Hamburg, PA
West Hamburg, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
West Hamburg's 1,050 buildings earn a 42nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts West Hamburg at the 40th percentile, close to its 42nd-percentile risk score.
West Hamburg's building exposure, zone by zone
1,050 buildings are counted in West Hamburg, and 50.1% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where West Hamburg ranks
Compare West Hamburg's two percentiles: 68th within Pennsylvania, only 42nd nationally — a gap of 25 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, West Hamburg ranks 18,199 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,597 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 646 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
West Hamburg and the insurance market
West Hamburg's elevated rating (42nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in West Hamburg
With 50.1% of West Hamburg in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
West Hamburg's 42nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond West Hamburg, see the exposure-zones guide.