Bay View, WA
How exposed is Bay View to wildfire?
Bay View's 708 buildings earn a 14th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places 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 Bay View at the 17th percentile, close to its 14th-percentile risk score.
Where Bay View's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Bay View: 75.4% of its 708 buildings, versus 2.5% Indirect and 22% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Bay View compares
Bay View's risk sits at a similar level relative to Washington (18th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (14th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bay View ranks 27,027 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,579 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 517 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bay View
Bay View's low wildfire rating (14th 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.
Hardening a home in Bay View
Bay View's 75.4% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 708 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Bay View. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Bay View, see the exposure-zones guide.