Cusick, WA
Cusick, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Cusick at the 54th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 181 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Cusick's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 54th percentile nationally.
Cusick's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 59.1% of Cusick's 181 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 40.3% Direct and 0.6% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Cusick ranks
Cusick scores 54th nationally and 64th 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, Cusick ranks 14,515 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,603 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 229 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
Cusick's elevated wildfire rating (54th 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.
Hardening a home in Cusick
Because 59.1% of Cusick'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
Cusick's 54th-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 Cusick, see the exposure-zones guide.