Canterwood, WA
Canterwood, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Canterwood sits at the 18th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,336 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Canterwood at the 18th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Canterwood's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Canterwood's buildings (68.9%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Canterwood ranks
There's little gap between Canterwood's 18th national percentile and its 25th percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Canterwood ranks 25,922 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,905 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 470 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Canterwood and the insurance market
At the 18th national percentile, Canterwood 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 Canterwood
Canterwood's 68.9% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Canterwood's 18th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Canterwood, see the exposure-zones guide.