Arlington Heights, WA
Arlington Heights, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Arlington Heights at the 37th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,909 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Arlington Heights at the 35th percentile, close to its 37th-percentile risk score.
Arlington Heights's building exposure, zone by zone
95.5% of Arlington Heights's 1,909 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 1,823 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 4.5% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Arlington Heights against the rest of the country
Within Washington, Arlington Heights ranks higher (55th percentile) than it does nationally (37th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Arlington Heights ranks 19,932 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,742 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 284 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Arlington Heights and the insurance market
Arlington Heights's moderate wildfire rating (37th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Arlington Heights (95.5%), 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Arlington Heights's 19,932-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Arlington Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.