Bryn Mawr-Skyway, WA
Bryn Mawr-Skyway wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Bryn Mawr-Skyway at the 5th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 5,549 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Bryn Mawr-Skyway's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 6th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 98.6% of Bryn Mawr-Skyway's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 1.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 5,549 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Bryn Mawr-Skyway ranks
There's little gap between Bryn Mawr-Skyway's 5th national percentile and its 2nd percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bryn Mawr-Skyway ranks 29,833 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,106 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 616 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
Bryn Mawr-Skyway's low rating (5th 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
Bryn Mawr-Skyway's 98.6% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bryn Mawr-Skyway's 29,833-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Bryn Mawr-Skyway, see the exposure-zones guide.