Ewa Gentry, HI
Ewa Gentry wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Ewa Gentry lands at the 78th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 5,875 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Ewa Gentry at the 77th national percentile — 1 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
Ewa Gentry rates 86.6% Minimal exposure against just 13.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 5,875 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 5,875 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Ewa Gentry ranks
Inside Hawaii, Ewa Gentry sits at just the 7th percentile even though it scores 78th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ewa Gentry ranks 6,895 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,927 by building count (1 is largest). Within Hawaii alone, it ranks 152 of 163 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Hawaii on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 78th percentile nationally, Ewa Gentry carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Ewa Gentry's 86.6% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ewa Gentry's 6,895-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Ewa Gentry, see the exposure-zones guide.