Fife Heights, WA
How exposed is Fife Heights to wildfire?
Fife Heights's 767 buildings earn a 9th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Fife Heights at the 9th percentile, close to its 9th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 22.4% of Fife Heights's 767 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 77.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Fife Heights against the rest of the country
Fife Heights scores 9th 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, Fife Heights ranks 28,761 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,953 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 574 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fife Heights
At the 9th national percentile, Fife Heights rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Fife Heights's 77.6% 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 Fife Heights's 28,761-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Fife Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.