Cascade Valley, WA
Cascade Valley, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Cascade Valley sits at the 81st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 2,235 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 Cascade Valley at the 82nd percentile, close to its 81st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 25.4% of Cascade Valley's 2,235 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0.5% carry Indirect; the remaining 74.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Cascade Valley compares
Cascade Valley's risk sits at a similar level relative to Washington (75th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (81st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cascade Valley ranks 6,004 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,855 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 159 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cascade Valley
At the 81st percentile nationally, Cascade Valley carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Cascade Valley
Even with 74.1% of Cascade Valley 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.
Where Cascade Valley's figures come from
Cascade Valley's 81st-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 Cascade Valley's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.