Roaring Spring, PA
Roaring Spring wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Roaring Spring lands at the 42nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,176 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 Roaring Spring at the 40th percentile, close to its 42nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
96.9% of Roaring Spring's 1,176 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 3.1% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Roaring Spring ranks
Compare Roaring Spring's two percentiles: 66th within Pennsylvania, only 42nd nationally — a gap of 24 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Roaring Spring ranks 18,417 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,791 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 684 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 42nd national percentile, Roaring Spring rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 96.9% of Roaring Spring's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Roaring Spring's 18,417-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Roaring Spring, see the exposure-zones guide.