Ronks, PA
Ronks, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Ronks at the 3rd national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 279 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Ronks at the 3rd percentile, close to its 3rd-percentile risk score.
Ronks's building exposure, zone by zone
Ronks rates 83.9% Minimal exposure against just 16.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 279 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Ronks compares
There's little gap between Ronks's 3rd national percentile and its 1st percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ronks ranks 30,653 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,237 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,979 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Ronks and the insurance market
At the 3rd national percentile, Ronks rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Ronks's 83.9% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Ronks's 3rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Ronks, see the exposure-zones guide.