Reinerton, PA
How exposed is Reinerton to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Reinerton at the 59th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 264 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 Reinerton at the 56th percentile, close to its 59th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Reinerton's buildings (56.8%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Reinerton against the rest of the country
Compare Reinerton's two percentiles: 95th within Pennsylvania, only 59th nationally — a gap of 36 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Reinerton ranks 13,031 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,711 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 102 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Reinerton and the insurance market
Reinerton's elevated wildfire rating (59th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Reinerton's 56.8% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Reinerton's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Reinerton's 13,031-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Reinerton's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.