Rices Landing, PA
Rices Landing wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Rices Landing at the 36th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 294 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Rices Landing at the 38th percentile, close to its 36th-percentile risk score.
Rices Landing's building exposure, zone by zone
294 buildings are counted in Rices Landing, and 54.8% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 42.2% in Direct exposure or the 3.1% rated Minimal.
How Rices Landing compares
Compare Rices Landing's two percentiles: 52nd within Pennsylvania, only 36th nationally — a gap of 16 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rices Landing ranks 20,214 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,803 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 953 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rices Landing
Rices Landing's moderate rating (36th 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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Rices Landing (54.8% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Rices Landing's figures come from
Rices Landing's 36th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Rices Landing's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.