Deer Lake (Fayette), PA
How exposed is Deer Lake (Fayette) to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Deer Lake (Fayette) at the 56th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 341 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Deer Lake (Fayette)'s burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 55th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
100% of Deer Lake (Fayette)'s 341 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 341 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Deer Lake (Fayette) compares
Within Pennsylvania, Deer Lake (Fayette) ranks higher (93rd percentile) than it does nationally (56th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Deer Lake (Fayette) ranks 13,743 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,561 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 147 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Deer Lake (Fayette) and the insurance market
Deer Lake (Fayette)'s elevated rating (56th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Deer Lake (Fayette)
Deer Lake (Fayette)'s 100% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Deer Lake (Fayette)'s 56th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Deer Lake (Fayette), see the exposure-zones guide.