Wilkinsburg, PA
Wilkinsburg, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Wilkinsburg sits at the 25th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 6,202 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Wilkinsburg at the 26th percentile, close to its 25th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
97.3% of Wilkinsburg's 6,202 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 2.7% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 6,202 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Wilkinsburg compares
There's little gap between Wilkinsburg's 25th national percentile and its 29th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wilkinsburg ranks 23,586 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,798 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,406 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wilkinsburg
Wilkinsburg's moderate wildfire rating (25th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 97.3% of Wilkinsburg outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 6,202 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Wilkinsburg. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Wilkinsburg, see the exposure-zones guide.