Brinnon, WA
Brinnon wildfire risk explained
Brinnon's 1,253 buildings earn a 44th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Brinnon at the 43rd percentile, close to its 44th-percentile risk score.
Brinnon's building exposure, zone by zone
1,253 buildings are counted in Brinnon, and 68.1% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 9.6% rated Minimal.
Brinnon against the rest of the country
Within Washington, Brinnon ranks higher (59th percentile) than it does nationally (44th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brinnon ranks 17,790 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,334 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 256 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Brinnon
Brinnon's elevated rating (44th 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
With 68.1% of Brinnon in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brinnon's 17,790-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Brinnon, see the exposure-zones guide.