West Pittston, PA
How exposed is West Pittston to wildfire?
West Pittston's 2,244 buildings earn a 46th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks West Pittston at the 45th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
West Pittston's building exposure, zone by zone
West Pittston rates 56.2% Minimal exposure against just 0.4% Direct and 43.5% Indirect — of 2,244 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How West Pittston compares
Compare West Pittston's two percentiles: 74th within Pennsylvania, only 46th nationally — a gap of 28 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, West Pittston ranks 17,000 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,829 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 517 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
West Pittston's elevated rating (46th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 56.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, West Pittston gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind West Pittston's 17,000-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond West Pittston, see the exposure-zones guide.