Anderson Island, WA
Anderson Island wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Anderson Island lands at the 29th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,412 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Anderson Island at the 29th percentile, close to its 29th-percentile risk score.
Where Anderson Island's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 85.8% of Anderson Island's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 8.4% Indirect share and far above its 5.7% Minimal share — a profile where 1,212 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Anderson Island compares
Within Washington, Anderson Island ranks higher (47th percentile) than it does nationally (29th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Anderson Island ranks 22,424 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,579 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 331 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Anderson Island and the insurance market
Anderson Island's moderate wildfire rating (29th 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 Anderson Island
Anderson Island's 85.8% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Anderson Island's 22,424-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Anderson Island, see the exposure-zones guide.