Amanda Park, WA
Amanda Park wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Amanda Park at the 27th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 143 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Amanda Park at the 26th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Amanda Park's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Amanda Park: 88.8% of its 143 buildings, versus 2.1% Indirect and 9.1% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Amanda Park ranks
Compare Amanda Park's two percentiles: 45th within Washington, only 27th nationally — a gap of 18 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Amanda Park ranks 23,056 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,183 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 346 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Amanda Park's moderate wildfire rating (27th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Amanda Park (88.8%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 143 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Amanda Park. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Amanda Park, see the exposure-zones guide.