Farmington, WA
Farmington wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Farmington lands at the 26th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 160 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 Farmington at the 24th percentile, close to its 26th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
38.8% of Farmington's 160 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 32.5% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Farmington compares
Within Washington, Farmington ranks higher (43rd percentile) than it does nationally (26th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Farmington ranks 23,496 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,462 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 361 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
Farmington's moderate rating (26th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Farmington
Farmington's 38.8% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 160 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Farmington. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Farmington, see the exposure-zones guide.