Battle Ground, WA
Battle Ground, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Battle Ground's 7,220 buildings earn a 39th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Battle Ground at the 43rd percentile, close to its 39th-percentile risk score.
Where Battle Ground's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 64.6% of Battle Ground's 7,220 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 18.2% Direct and 17.2% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 7,220 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Battle Ground ranks
Battle Ground's 56th-percentile standing inside Washington outpaces its 39th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Battle Ground ranks 19,272 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,374 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 275 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
Battle Ground's moderate wildfire rating (39th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 64.6% of Battle Ground'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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Battle Ground's 19,272-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Battle Ground, see the exposure-zones guide.