East Port Orchard, WA
East Port Orchard wildfire risk explained
East Port Orchard's 1,824 buildings earn a 15th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks East Port Orchard at the 16th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 51.8% of East Port Orchard's 1,824 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 6.9% Direct and 41.4% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where East Port Orchard ranks
East Port Orchard's risk sits at a similar level relative to Washington (20th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (15th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Port Orchard ranks 26,677 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,995 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 502 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
East Port Orchard and the insurance market
East Port Orchard's low wildfire rating (15th 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
East Port Orchard's 51.8% 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.
More on how this number was built
East Port Orchard's 15th-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 East Port Orchard, see the exposure-zones guide.