WildfireRiskFinder

Rohrerstown, PA

Rohrerstown, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers

Low
4thpercentile nationally

Rohrerstown's 251 buildings earn a 4th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)

USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Rohrerstown at the 4th percentile, close to its 4th-percentile risk score.

What "at risk" means for the buildings here

251Total buildings
8.8%Direct exposure
0%Indirect exposure
91.2%Minimal exposure

91.2% of Rohrerstown's 251 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 8.8% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.

How Rohrerstown compares

There's little gap between Rohrerstown's 4th national percentile and its 2nd percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rohrerstown ranks 30,176 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,117 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,954 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 4th national percentile, Rohrerstown rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.

Hardening a home in Rohrerstown

With 91.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Rohrerstown gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.

Where Rohrerstown's figures come from

Every one of the two percentiles behind Rohrerstown's 30,176-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Rohrerstown's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.