Cashmere, WA
How exposed is Cashmere to wildfire?
Cashmere's 1,388 buildings earn a 99th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Cashmere at the 100th percentile, close to its 99th-percentile risk score.
Cashmere's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Cashmere's buildings (94.7%) 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.
How Cashmere compares
Cashmere scores 99th nationally and 98th 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, Cashmere ranks 267 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,679 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 15 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
Cashmere's very high rating (99th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Cashmere
Cashmere's 94.7% 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.
Where Cashmere's figures come from
Cashmere's 99th-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 Cashmere's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.