Crescent Bar, WA
Crescent Bar, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Crescent Bar at the 95th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 588 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Crescent Bar's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 96th percentile nationally.
Crescent Bar's building exposure, zone by zone
63.1% of Crescent Bar's 588 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 36.6% Direct and 0.3% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Crescent Bar against the rest of the country
Crescent Bar scores 95th nationally and 88th 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, Crescent Bar ranks 1,460 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,995 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 77 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Crescent Bar and the insurance market
Crescent Bar's very high rating (95th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Crescent Bar's 63.1% 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 Crescent Bar's figures come from
Crescent Bar's 95th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Crescent Bar's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.