Fife, WA
Fife wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Fife at the 10th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 3,552 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Fife's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 10th percentile nationally.
Where Fife's buildings actually sit
Most of Fife's buildings (98% of 3,552) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Where Fife ranks
There's little gap between Fife's 10th national percentile and its 10th percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fife ranks 28,508 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,718 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 567 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fife
Fife's low wildfire rating (10th 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 98% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Fife 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 Fife's 28,508-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, see the exposure-zones guide.