Castle Rock, WA
Castle Rock, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Castle Rock's 1,227 buildings earn a 25th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Castle Rock's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 26th percentile nationally.
Castle Rock's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Castle Rock (86.6% of 1,227 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 13.5% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Castle Rock ranks
Castle Rock's 42nd-percentile standing inside Washington outpaces its 25th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Castle Rock ranks 23,652 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,490 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 367 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Castle Rock
Castle Rock's moderate wildfire rating (25th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Castle Rock
Castle Rock's 86.6% 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 Castle Rock's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Castle Rock's 23,652-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Castle Rock's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.