Conneaut Lake, PA
How exposed is Conneaut Lake to wildfire?
USFS scores Conneaut Lake at the 36th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 380 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Conneaut Lake at the 37th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
380 buildings are counted in Conneaut Lake, and 79% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 21.1% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Conneaut Lake compares
Conneaut Lake's 53rd-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 36th 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, Conneaut Lake ranks 20,116 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,654 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 938 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Conneaut Lake and the insurance market
Conneaut Lake's moderate rating (36th 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
Conneaut Lake's 79% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Conneaut Lake's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Conneaut Lake's 20,116-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Conneaut Lake's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.