Coventry Lake, CT
How exposed is Coventry Lake to wildfire?
Coventry Lake's 1,735 buildings earn a 39th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Coventry Lake at the 37th percentile, close to its 39th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Coventry Lake's 1,735 counted buildings, 72.9% carry Direct exposure and only 4.5% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Coventry Lake against the rest of the country
Coventry Lake's 77th-percentile standing inside Connecticut outpaces its 39th 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, Coventry Lake ranks 19,120 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,278 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 51 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Coventry Lake's moderate rating (39th 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Coventry Lake (72.9%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Coventry Lake's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Coventry Lake's 19,120-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Coventry Lake's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.