West Reading, PA
West Reading, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts West Reading at the 12th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 678 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, West Reading's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 12th percentile nationally.
Where West Reading's buildings actually sit
Only 2.1% of West Reading's 678 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 97.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where West Reading ranks
West Reading scores 12th nationally and 11th 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, West Reading ranks 27,620 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,890 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,777 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
West Reading and the insurance market
West Reading's low rating (12th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
West Reading's 97.9% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind West Reading's 27,620-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond West Reading, see the exposure-zones guide.