Connell, WA
Connell wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Connell at the 93rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 1,290 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Connell at the 94th percentile, close to its 93rd-percentile risk score.
Where Connell's buildings actually sit
Most of Connell's buildings (91.4%) 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.
Connell against the rest of the country
Connell scores 93rd nationally and 84th 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, Connell ranks 2,252 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,129 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 102 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Connell
Connell's very high rating (93rd 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 Connell
Because 91.4% of Connell's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,290 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Connell. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Connell, see the exposure-zones guide.