Glacier, WA
Glacier wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Glacier at the 60th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 430 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Glacier at the 53rd national percentile — 7 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Glacier's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 98.8% of Glacier's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 1.2% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 425 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Glacier compares
Glacier scores 60th nationally and 67th 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, Glacier ranks 12,498 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,662 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 209 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Glacier's high rating (60th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Glacier
With 98.8% of Glacier in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Glacier's 12,498-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Glacier, see the exposure-zones guide.