Riceville, PA
Riceville, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Riceville lands at the 40th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 55 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Riceville at the 41st percentile, close to its 40th-percentile risk score.
Riceville's building exposure, zone by zone
100% of Riceville's 55 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 55 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Riceville against the rest of the country
Within Pennsylvania, Riceville ranks higher (62nd percentile) than it does nationally (40th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Riceville ranks 19,043 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,800 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 765 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Riceville
Riceville's moderate rating (40th 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 100% of Riceville 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Riceville's 19,043-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Riceville, see the exposure-zones guide.