Rote, PA
How exposed is Rote to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Rote at the 51st national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 383 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 Rote at the 50th percentile, close to its 51st-percentile risk score.
Where Rote's buildings actually sit
100% of Rote's 383 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 383 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Rote ranks
Within Pennsylvania, Rote ranks higher (85th percentile) than it does nationally (51st) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rote ranks 15,331 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,576 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 307 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Rote and the insurance market
Rote's elevated wildfire rating (51st percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Rote
Rote's 100% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Rote's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Rote's 15,331-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Rote's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.