Basin City, WA
How exposed is Basin City to wildfire?
Basin City's 356 buildings earn a 85th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Basin City at the 85th percentile, close to its 85th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Basin City's buildings (66.6%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Basin City ranks
Basin City scores 85th nationally and 76th within Washington — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Basin City ranks 4,838 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,173 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 149 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Basin City's 85th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 66.6% of Basin City'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 Basin City's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Basin City's 4,838-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Basin City's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.