Granger, WA
Granger, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Granger lands at the 77th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,104 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Granger at the 79th percentile, close to its 77th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 83.8% of Granger's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 15.6% Direct and 0.6% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Granger ranks
There's little gap between Granger's 77th national percentile and its 73rd percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Granger ranks 7,296 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,258 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 170 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Granger and the insurance market
Granger's 77th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Granger
Granger's 83.8% 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.
More on how this number was built
Granger's 77th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Granger, see the exposure-zones guide.