Brady, WA
How exposed is Brady to wildfire?
Brady sits at the 24th 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 610 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 Brady at the 27th percentile, close to its 24th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Brady: 81.5% of its 610 buildings, versus 18.5% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Brady compares
Brady's risk sits at a similar level relative to Washington (38th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (24th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brady ranks 24,095 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,698 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 390 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Brady and the insurance market
Brady's moderate wildfire rating (24th 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
Brady's 81.5% 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.
Where Brady's figures come from
Brady's 24th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Brady's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.