Belfair, WA
Belfair wildfire risk explained
Belfair sits at the 31st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 2,215 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Belfair at the 32nd percentile, close to its 31st-percentile risk score.
Belfair's building exposure, zone by zone
2,215 buildings are counted in Belfair, and 54% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 45.3% in Direct exposure or the 0.8% rated Minimal.
Belfair against the rest of the country
Within Washington, Belfair ranks higher (50th percentile) than it does nationally (31st) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Belfair ranks 21,827 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,898 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 315 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Belfair
Belfair's moderate rating (31st 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
Because 54% of Belfair'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
Belfair's 31st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Belfair, see the exposure-zones guide.