Fawn Lake Forest, PA
Fawn Lake Forest, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Fawn Lake Forest at the 56th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 839 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Fawn Lake Forest at the 55th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Fawn Lake Forest's building exposure, zone by zone
839 buildings are counted in Fawn Lake Forest, and 99.4% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0.6% rated Minimal.
How Fawn Lake Forest compares
Compare Fawn Lake Forest's two percentiles: 92nd within Pennsylvania, only 56th nationally — a gap of 36 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fawn Lake Forest ranks 13,818 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,263 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 157 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Fawn Lake Forest and the insurance market
Fawn Lake Forest's elevated wildfire rating (56th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Fawn Lake Forest (99.4%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Fawn Lake Forest's figures come from
Fawn Lake Forest's 56th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Fawn Lake Forest's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.