Lake Wallenpaupack Estates, PA
Lake Wallenpaupack Estates wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Lake Wallenpaupack Estates at the 47th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 275 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lake Wallenpaupack Estates at the 48th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Lake Wallenpaupack Estates's building exposure, zone by zone
275 buildings are counted in Lake Wallenpaupack Estates, and 100% 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% rated Minimal.
Lake Wallenpaupack Estates against the rest of the country
Compare Lake Wallenpaupack Estates's two percentiles: 75th within Pennsylvania, only 47th nationally — a gap of 28 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lake Wallenpaupack Estates ranks 16,843 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,367 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 497 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Lake Wallenpaupack Estates's elevated rating (47th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Lake Wallenpaupack Estates (100%), 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lake Wallenpaupack Estates's 16,843-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Lake Wallenpaupack Estates, see the exposure-zones guide.