LeRaysville, PA
How exposed is LeRaysville to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts LeRaysville at the 37th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 228 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts LeRaysville at the 39th percentile, close to its 37th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
96.1% of LeRaysville's 228 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 219 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 4% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where LeRaysville ranks
LeRaysville's 54th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 37th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, LeRaysville ranks 19,989 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,870 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 915 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
LeRaysville's moderate rating (37th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
LeRaysville's 96.1% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 228 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for LeRaysville. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond LeRaysville, see the exposure-zones guide.