Garfield, WA
Garfield, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Garfield's 475 buildings earn a 14th-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 Garfield at the 13th percentile, close to its 14th-percentile risk score.
Where Garfield's buildings actually sit
Only 12.8% of Garfield's 475 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 87.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Garfield against the rest of the country
Garfield's risk sits at a similar level relative to Washington (18th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (14th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Garfield ranks 27,120 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,807 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 518 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Garfield
Garfield's low rating (14th 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 Garfield
Garfield's 87.2% 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.
Where Garfield's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Garfield's 27,120-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Garfield's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.