Rockdale Acres, PA
Rockdale Acres, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Rockdale Acres's 80 buildings earn a 37th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Rockdale Acres at the 38th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Rockdale Acres's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 98.8% of Rockdale Acres's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 1.3% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 79 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Rockdale Acres against the rest of the country
Within Pennsylvania, Rockdale Acres ranks higher (55th percentile) than it does nationally (37th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rockdale Acres ranks 19,867 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,895 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 894 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Rockdale Acres and the insurance market
Rockdale Acres's moderate rating (37th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Rockdale Acres
With 98.8% of Rockdale Acres 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.
Where Rockdale Acres's figures come from
Rockdale Acres's 37th-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 Rockdale Acres's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.