Raubsville, PA
How exposed is Raubsville to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Raubsville at the 29th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 576 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Raubsville at the 27th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Raubsville's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 76.6% of Raubsville's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 21% Indirect share and far above its 2.4% Minimal share — a profile where 441 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Raubsville compares
There's little gap between Raubsville's 29th national percentile and its 36th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Raubsville ranks 22,391 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,168 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,273 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Raubsville
At the 29th national percentile, Raubsville rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Raubsville's 76.6% 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.
Where Raubsville's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 576 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Raubsville. The exposure-zones guide covers what Raubsville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.