Wyomissing, PA
Wyomissing wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wyomissing at the 12th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 3,701 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wyomissing at the 12th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Wyomissing's building exposure, zone by zone
79.1% of Wyomissing's 3,701 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 20.9% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Wyomissing compares
Wyomissing's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (10th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (12th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wyomissing ranks 27,783 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,521 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,787 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Wyomissing's low wildfire rating (12th 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 Wyomissing
Wyomissing's 79.1% 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
Wyomissing's 12th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Wyomissing, see the exposure-zones guide.