Ashford, WA
How exposed is Ashford to wildfire?
USFS scores Ashford at the 63rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 308 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Ashford at the 63rd percentile, close to its 63rd-percentile risk score.
Ashford's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Ashford: 95.8% of its 308 buildings, versus 4.2% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Ashford compares
Ashford's risk sits at a similar level relative to Washington (69th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (63rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ashford ranks 11,773 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,432 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 198 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ashford
Ashford's 63rd-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Ashford
With 95.8% of Ashford in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ashford's 11,773-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Ashford, see the exposure-zones guide.