College Place, WA
How exposed is College Place to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, College Place lands at the 51st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 3,522 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts College Place at the 54th percentile, close to its 51st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 6% of College Place's 3,522 buildings carry Direct exposure and 2.9% carry Indirect; the remaining 91.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
College Place against the rest of the country
College Place's risk sits at a similar level relative to Washington (63rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (51st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, College Place ranks 15,365 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,747 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 234 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in College Place
College Place's elevated rating (51st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in College Place
Even with 91.1% of College Place 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,522 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for College Place. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond College Place, see the exposure-zones guide.