Chinook, WA
Chinook wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Chinook lands at the 39th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 485 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Chinook's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 38th percentile nationally.
Chinook's building exposure, zone by zone
85.4% of Chinook's 485 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 14% Direct and 0.6% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Chinook compares
Compare Chinook's two percentiles: 56th within Washington, only 39th nationally — a gap of 17 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Chinook ranks 19,241 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,625 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 274 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Chinook
Chinook's moderate wildfire rating (39th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Chinook (85.4% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Chinook's 39th-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 Chinook, see the exposure-zones guide.