Algona, WA
Algona wildfire risk explained
Algona's 1,335 buildings earn a 10th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Algona at the 10th percentile, close to its 10th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 97.8% of Algona's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 2.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Algona ranks
There's little gap between Algona's 10th national percentile and its 10th percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Algona ranks 28,507 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,911 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 566 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Algona and the insurance market
At the 10th national percentile, Algona 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
Algona's 97.8% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,335 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Algona. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Algona, see the exposure-zones guide.