Barberton, WA
How exposed is Barberton to wildfire?
Barberton's 3,874 buildings earn a 20th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Barberton at the 24th national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Barberton's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 12.1% of Barberton's 3,874 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 87.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Barberton ranks
There's little gap between Barberton's 20th national percentile and its 31st percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Barberton ranks 25,102 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,363 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 431 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Barberton and the insurance market
Barberton's moderate rating (20th 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
Barberton's 87.9% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Barberton's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,874 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Barberton. The exposure-zones guide covers what Barberton's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.