Reese, PA
Reese, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Reese at the 54th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 42 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Reese at the 53rd national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 100% of Reese's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 42 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Reese compares
Reese's 90th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 54th 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, Reese ranks 14,386 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,126 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 200 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Reese and the insurance market
Reese's elevated wildfire rating (54th 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.
Hardening a home in Reese
With 100% of Reese in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Reese's 54th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Reese, see the exposure-zones guide.