Edmonds, WA
How exposed is Edmonds to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Edmonds lands at the 7th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 14,676 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Edmonds at the 6th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 5.2% of Edmonds's 14,676 buildings carry Direct exposure and 5.6% carry Indirect; the remaining 89.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 14,676 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Edmonds ranks
Edmonds scores 7th nationally and 5th 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, Edmonds ranks 29,485 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,013 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 599 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Edmonds and the insurance market
At the 7th national percentile, Edmonds rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 89.2% of Edmonds outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Edmonds's 7th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Edmonds, see the exposure-zones guide.