Dollars Corner, WA
How exposed is Dollars Corner to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Dollars Corner at the 35th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,047 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Dollars Corner at the 39th percentile, close to its 35th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
74.7% of Dollars Corner's 1,047 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 782 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0.9% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 24.5% are Minimal.
Where Dollars Corner ranks
Compare Dollars Corner's two percentiles: 54th within Washington, only 35th nationally — a gap of 19 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dollars Corner ranks 20,596 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,608 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 291 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dollars Corner
Dollars Corner's moderate wildfire rating (35th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 74.7% of Dollars Corner in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Dollars Corner's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,047 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Dollars Corner. The exposure-zones guide covers what Dollars Corner's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.