Bangor Base, WA
How exposed is Bangor Base to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Bangor Base at the 22nd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 965 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bangor Base at the 22nd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 71.4% of Bangor Base's 965 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 23.7% Direct and 4.9% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Bangor Base compares
Bangor Base's risk sits at a similar level relative to Washington (34th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (22nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bangor Base ranks 24,665 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,191 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 414 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Bangor Base and the insurance market
Bangor Base's moderate rating (22nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 71.4% of Bangor Base's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Bangor Base's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bangor Base's 24,665-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Bangor Base's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.