Rheems, PA
How exposed is Rheems to wildfire?
USFS scores Rheems at the 2nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 839 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Rheems's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 3rd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
77.6% of Rheems's 839 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 22.4% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Rheems against the rest of the country
Rheems scores 2nd nationally and 0th within Pennsylvania — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rheems ranks 30,811 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,264 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,985 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rheems
Rheems's low wildfire rating (2nd 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
Rheems's 77.6% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Rheems's 30,811-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Rheems, see the exposure-zones guide.