Laurel Lake, PA
Laurel Lake wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Laurel Lake lands at the 16th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 217 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Laurel Lake's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 17th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
217 buildings are counted in Laurel Lake, and 99.1% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0.9% rated Minimal.
How Laurel Lake compares
There's little gap between Laurel Lake's 16th national percentile and its 17th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Laurel Lake ranks 26,355 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,249 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,658 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Laurel Lake
At the 16th national percentile, Laurel Lake rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 99.1% of Laurel Lake 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
Laurel Lake's 16th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Laurel Lake, see the exposure-zones guide.