Country Homes, WA
How exposed is Country Homes to wildfire?
USFS scores Country Homes at the 71st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,932 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Country Homes's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 69th percentile nationally.
Where Country Homes's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 53.3% of Country Homes's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 9% Direct and 37.8% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Country Homes against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Country Homes's 71st national percentile and its 72nd percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Country Homes ranks 9,126 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,673 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 178 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
At the 71st percentile nationally, Country Homes carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Country Homes
With 53.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Country Homes gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Country Homes's 9,126-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Country Homes, see the exposure-zones guide.