Eagle Lake, ME
How exposed is Eagle Lake to wildfire?
Eagle Lake sits at the 10th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 444 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Eagle Lake at the 10th percentile, close to its 10th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
444 buildings are counted in Eagle Lake, and 74.1% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 4.3% rated Minimal.
How Eagle Lake compares
Compare Eagle Lake's two percentiles: 53rd within Maine, only 10th nationally — a gap of 43 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Eagle Lake ranks 28,274 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,379 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maine alone, it ranks 73 of 155 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maine on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Eagle Lake
Eagle Lake's low wildfire rating (10th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 74.1% of Eagle Lake in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Eagle Lake's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Eagle Lake's 28,274-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Eagle Lake's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.