Federal Way, WA
Federal Way, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Federal Way sits at the 10th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 26,506 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Federal Way's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 10th percentile nationally.
Where Federal Way's buildings actually sit
Federal Way rates 95.3% Minimal exposure against just 4.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 26,506 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 26,506 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Federal Way compares
Federal Way scores 10th nationally and 9th 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, Federal Way ranks 28,540 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 467 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 569 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Federal Way
At the 10th national percentile, Federal Way rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Federal Way
With 95.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Federal Way gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Federal Way's 28,540-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Federal Way, see the exposure-zones guide.