Fairwood (King), WA
How exposed is Fairwood (King) to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Fairwood (King) lands at the 16th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 5,822 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Fairwood (King) at the 15th percentile, close to its 16th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Fairwood (King) (81% of 5,822 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 10.8% sit in the Direct zone. At 5,822 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Fairwood (King) ranks
There's little gap between Fairwood (King)'s 16th national percentile and its 21st percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fairwood (King) ranks 26,554 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,962 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 497 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
Fairwood (King)'s low wildfire rating (16th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Fairwood (King) (81% 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 Fairwood (King)'s 26,554-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Fairwood (King), see the exposure-zones guide.