East Renton Highlands, WA
East Renton Highlands, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts East Renton Highlands at the 46th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 5,470 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks East Renton Highlands at the 45th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where East Renton Highlands's buildings actually sit
59.3% of East Renton Highlands's 5,470 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 39.1% Direct and 1.7% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone. At 5,470 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How East Renton Highlands compares
East Renton Highlands scores 46th nationally and 61st 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, East Renton Highlands ranks 17,005 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,155 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 248 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
East Renton Highlands's elevated rating (46th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in East Renton Highlands
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in East Renton Highlands (59.3% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind East Renton Highlands's 17,005-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond East Renton Highlands, see the exposure-zones guide.