Rouseville, PA
How exposed is Rouseville to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Rouseville at the 36th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 321 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Rouseville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 35th percentile nationally.
Where Rouseville's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Rouseville (68.2% of 321 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 31.8% sit in the Direct zone.
Rouseville against the rest of the country
Within Pennsylvania, Rouseville ranks higher (53rd percentile) than it does nationally (36th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rouseville ranks 20,059 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,074 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 929 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Rouseville and the insurance market
Rouseville's moderate wildfire rating (36th 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 Rouseville
Because 68.2% of Rouseville's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Rouseville's 36th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Rouseville, see the exposure-zones guide.