Pocono Woodland Lakes, PA
Pocono Woodland Lakes, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Pocono Woodland Lakes lands at the 55th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,382 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Pocono Woodland Lakes at the 54th percentile, close to its 55th-percentile risk score.
Pocono Woodland Lakes's building exposure, zone by zone
100% of Pocono Woodland Lakes's 1,382 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 1,382 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Pocono Woodland Lakes compares
Compare Pocono Woodland Lakes's two percentiles: 91st within Pennsylvania, only 55th nationally — a gap of 36 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pocono Woodland Lakes ranks 14,256 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,707 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 189 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pocono Woodland Lakes
Pocono Woodland Lakes's elevated rating (55th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Pocono Woodland Lakes's 100% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,382 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Pocono Woodland Lakes. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pocono Woodland Lakes, see the exposure-zones guide.