Lakeside Woods, CT
Lakeside Woods wildfire risk explained
Lakeside Woods's 383 buildings earn a 43rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Lakeside Woods's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 41st percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 96.6% of Lakeside Woods's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 3.4% Minimal share — a profile where 370 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Lakeside Woods against the rest of the country
Compare Lakeside Woods's two percentiles: 90th within Connecticut, only 43rd nationally — a gap of 47 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lakeside Woods ranks 18,047 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,555 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 23 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lakeside Woods
At the 43rd national percentile, Lakeside Woods rates elevated 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
With 96.6% of Lakeside Woods 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lakeside Woods's 18,047-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Lakeside Woods, see the exposure-zones guide.