Lake City, PA
Lake City wildfire risk explained
Lake City's 1,369 buildings earn a 22nd-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Lake City's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 22nd percentile nationally.
Where Lake City's buildings actually sit
Only 21.8% of Lake City's 1,369 buildings carry Direct exposure and 38.1% carry Indirect; the remaining 40.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Lake City ranks
There's little gap between Lake City's 22nd national percentile and its 24th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lake City ranks 24,660 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,753 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,512 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Lake City and the insurance market
At the 22nd national percentile, Lake City rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Lake City's 40.2% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Lake City's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lake City's 24,660-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lake City's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.