Brier, WA
Brier wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Brier lands at the 6th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 2,793 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Brier at the 6th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Brier's buildings actually sit
Most of Brier's buildings (89.7% of 2,793) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Brier against the rest of the country
Brier scores 6th nationally and 3rd within Washington — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brier ranks 29,770 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,776 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 612 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
Brier's low rating (6th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 89.7% of Brier outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brier's 29,770-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Brier, see the exposure-zones guide.