Dash Point, WA
How exposed is Dash Point to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Dash Point lands at the 11th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 525 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Dash Point's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 11th percentile nationally.
Where Dash Point's buildings actually sit
Dash Point rates 89.5% Minimal exposure against just 10.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 525 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Dash Point against the rest of the country
Dash Point scores 11th nationally and 11th 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, Dash Point ranks 28,068 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,952 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 557 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dash Point
At the 11th national percentile, Dash Point rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Dash Point
Dash Point's 89.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Dash Point's 28,068-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Dash Point, see the exposure-zones guide.