Herron Island, WA
Herron Island wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Herron Island at the 31st national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 286 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Herron Island at the 31st percentile, close to its 31st-percentile risk score.
Where Herron Island's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 77.3% of Herron Island's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 2.5% Indirect share and far above its 20.3% Minimal share — a profile where 221 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Herron Island against the rest of the country
Compare Herron Island's two percentiles: 50th within Washington, only 31st nationally — a gap of 19 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Herron Island ranks 21,857 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,024 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 316 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Herron Island
Herron Island's moderate wildfire rating (31st 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
With 77.3% of Herron Island 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
Herron Island's 31st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Herron Island, see the exposure-zones guide.