West Leechburg, PA
West Leechburg, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts West Leechburg at the 35th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 724 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks West Leechburg at the 36th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
West Leechburg's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 73.3% of West Leechburg's 724 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 26.7% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How West Leechburg compares
West Leechburg scores 35th nationally and 48th 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, West Leechburg ranks 20,655 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,409 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,029 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in West Leechburg
West Leechburg's moderate wildfire rating (35th 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
West Leechburg's 73.3% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
West Leechburg's 35th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond West Leechburg, see the exposure-zones guide.