Lake Heritage, PA
How exposed is Lake Heritage to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Lake Heritage lands at the 7th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,112 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Lake Heritage's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 7th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Lake Heritage's 1,112 counted buildings, 62.7% carry Direct exposure and only 1.5% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Lake Heritage against the rest of the country
Lake Heritage's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (4th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (7th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lake Heritage ranks 29,482 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,208 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,918 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Lake Heritage and the insurance market
Lake Heritage's low rating (7th 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 Lake Heritage
Because Direct exposure dominates in Lake Heritage (62.7%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,112 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Lake Heritage. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Lake Heritage, see the exposure-zones guide.