Blyn, WA
How exposed is Blyn to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Blyn at the 44th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 146 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Blyn at the 42nd national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Blyn's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Blyn: 76% of its 146 buildings, versus 23.3% Indirect and 0.7% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Blyn against the rest of the country
Blyn's 60th-percentile standing inside Washington outpaces its 44th 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, Blyn ranks 17,760 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,050 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 255 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
Blyn's elevated wildfire rating (44th 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 Blyn
Blyn's 76% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Blyn's 17,760-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Blyn, see the exposure-zones guide.