Enumclaw, WA
Enumclaw, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Enumclaw's 5,651 buildings earn a 47th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Enumclaw at the 48th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Enumclaw's buildings actually sit
Only 9.7% of Enumclaw's 5,651 buildings carry Direct exposure and 40.8% carry Indirect; the remaining 49.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 5,651 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Enumclaw compares
There's little gap between Enumclaw's 47th national percentile and its 61st percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Enumclaw ranks 16,847 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,060 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 247 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Enumclaw
At the 47th national percentile, Enumclaw rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 49.6% of Enumclaw 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.
Where Enumclaw's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Enumclaw's 16,847-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Enumclaw's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.