Bothell, WA
Bothell, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Bothell's 15,118 buildings earn a 7th-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 Bothell at the 7th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 11.7% of Bothell's 15,118 buildings carry Direct exposure and 2.3% carry Indirect; the remaining 86.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 15,118 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Bothell against the rest of the country
Bothell's risk sits at a similar level relative to Washington (6th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (7th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bothell ranks 29,326 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 980 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 592 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Bothell and the insurance market
At the 7th national percentile, Bothell rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Bothell
With 86.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Bothell gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Bothell's 7th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Bothell, see the exposure-zones guide.