Aberdeen Gardens, WA
Aberdeen Gardens wildfire risk explained
Aberdeen Gardens's 260 buildings earn a 31st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Aberdeen Gardens at the 30th percentile, close to its 31st-percentile risk score.
Where Aberdeen Gardens's buildings actually sit
100% of Aberdeen Gardens's 260 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 260 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Aberdeen Gardens ranks
Within Washington, Aberdeen Gardens ranks higher (50th percentile) than it does nationally (31st) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Aberdeen Gardens ranks 21,792 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,843 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 313 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Aberdeen Gardens and the insurance market
At the 31st national percentile, Aberdeen Gardens rates moderate 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 100% of Aberdeen Gardens 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.
Where Aberdeen Gardens's figures come from
Aberdeen Gardens's 31st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Aberdeen Gardens's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.