Grand Mound, WA
How exposed is Grand Mound to wildfire?
USFS scores Grand Mound at the 25th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 2,098 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Grand Mound at the 29th percentile, close to its 25th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
58.5% of Grand Mound's 2,098 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 41.5% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Grand Mound compares
Grand Mound's 41st-percentile standing inside Washington outpaces its 25th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Grand Mound ranks 23,748 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,199 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 373 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Grand Mound and the insurance market
At the 25th national percentile, Grand Mound rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Grand Mound
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Grand Mound (58.5% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Grand Mound's 25th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Grand Mound, see the exposure-zones guide.