Roots, PA
How exposed is Roots to wildfire?
USFS scores Roots at the 51st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 61 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Roots at the 49th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Roots's buildings actually sit
Of Roots's 61 counted buildings, 65.6% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Roots compares
Roots's 85th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 51st national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Roots ranks 15,330 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,635 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 306 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Roots
Roots's elevated rating (51st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Roots (65.6%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 61 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Roots. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Roots, see the exposure-zones guide.