Airway Heights, WA
Airway Heights, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Airway Heights at the 93rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 2,707 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Airway Heights at the 93rd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Airway Heights's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 61.8% of Airway Heights's 2,707 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 8.2% Direct and 30% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Airway Heights compares
There's little gap between Airway Heights's 93rd national percentile and its 84th percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Airway Heights ranks 2,251 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,915 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 101 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Airway Heights and the insurance market
At the 93rd percentile nationally, Airway Heights carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 61.8% of Airway Heights's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Airway Heights's 2,251-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Airway Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.