Friday Harbor, WA
Friday Harbor wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Friday Harbor lands at the 23rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,375 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Friday Harbor at the 23rd national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Friday Harbor's buildings actually sit
1,375 buildings are counted in Friday Harbor, and 94.8% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 5% in Direct exposure or the 0.2% rated Minimal.
How Friday Harbor compares
There's little gap between Friday Harbor's 23rd national percentile and its 38th percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Friday Harbor ranks 24,219 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,734 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 393 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Friday Harbor
Friday Harbor's moderate wildfire rating (23rd 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.
Hardening a home in Friday Harbor
Because 94.8% of Friday Harbor'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 Friday Harbor's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Friday Harbor's 24,219-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Friday Harbor's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.