Royersford, PA
Royersford, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Royersford lands at the 7th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,160 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Royersford's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 8th percentile nationally.
Royersford's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Royersford's buildings (89.7% of 1,160) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Royersford against the rest of the country
Royersford scores 7th nationally and 5th within Pennsylvania — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Royersford ranks 29,201 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,891 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,900 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Royersford and the insurance market
Royersford's low wildfire rating (7th 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 Royersford
Even with 89.7% of Royersford outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Royersford's 29,201-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Royersford, see the exposure-zones guide.