Granite Falls, WA
Granite Falls, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Granite Falls's 1,628 buildings earn a 28th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Granite Falls at the 27th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Granite Falls's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 77.1% of Granite Falls's 1,628 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 22.9% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Granite Falls ranks
Compare Granite Falls's two percentiles: 46th within Washington, only 28th nationally — a gap of 18 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Granite Falls ranks 22,738 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,662 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 339 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Granite Falls
Granite Falls's moderate wildfire rating (28th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Granite Falls's 77.1% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Granite Falls's 22,738-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Granite Falls, see the exposure-zones guide.