Edison, WA
How exposed is Edison to wildfire?
Edison sits at the 8th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 201 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Edison at the 11th percentile, close to its 8th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Edison's 201 counted buildings, 49.3% carry Direct exposure and only 37.3% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Edison ranks
Edison's risk sits at a similar level relative to Washington (8th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (8th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Edison ranks 28,950 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,822 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 577 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Edison
Edison's low wildfire rating (8th 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 Edison
With 49.3% of Edison 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.
More on how this number was built
Edison's 8th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Edison, see the exposure-zones guide.