Albion, WA
Albion wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Albion at the 45th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 382 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Albion at the 45th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Albion's buildings actually sit
Most of Albion's buildings (85.9%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Albion against the rest of the country
Albion's risk sits at a similar level relative to Washington (60th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (45th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Albion ranks 17,256 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,612 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 250 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Albion
Albion's elevated wildfire rating (45th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Albion
Because 85.9% of Albion'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 Albion's 17,256-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Albion, see the exposure-zones guide.