Barstow, WA
How exposed is Barstow to wildfire?
Barstow's 93 buildings earn a 86th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Barstow's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 87th percentile nationally.
Barstow's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Barstow: 100% of its 93 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Barstow against the rest of the country
Barstow's risk sits at a similar level relative to Washington (77th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (86th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Barstow ranks 4,300 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,382 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 145 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Barstow
Barstow's 86th-percentile, very 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 Barstow
With 100% of Barstow 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
Barstow's 86th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Barstow, see the exposure-zones guide.