Royer, PA
Royer wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Royer at the 50th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 55 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Royer at the 49th percentile, close to its 50th-percentile risk score.
Royer's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Royer's 55 counted buildings, 78.2% 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 Royer compares
Royer's 82nd-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 50th 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, Royer ranks 15,679 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,801 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 353 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Royer
At the 50th national percentile, Royer rates elevated 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
Royer's 78.2% 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 Royer's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 55 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Royer. The exposure-zones guide covers what Royer's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.