Fairwood (Spokane), WA
How exposed is Fairwood (Spokane) to wildfire?
USFS scores Fairwood (Spokane) at the 77th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 3,073 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Fairwood (Spokane) at the 76th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Fairwood (Spokane)'s building exposure, zone by zone
3,073 buildings are counted in Fairwood (Spokane), and 58.8% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 20.2% in Direct exposure or the 21% rated Minimal.
Fairwood (Spokane) against the rest of the country
Fairwood (Spokane) scores 77th nationally and 74th 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, Fairwood (Spokane) ranks 7,139 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,321 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 167 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Fairwood (Spokane) and the insurance market
Fairwood (Spokane)'s 77th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 58.8% of Fairwood (Spokane)'s buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Fairwood (Spokane)'s figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Fairwood (Spokane)'s 7,139-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Fairwood (Spokane)'s dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.