Home, WA
Home wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Home at the 30th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 1,113 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Home's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 30th percentile nationally.
Where Home's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 83% of Home's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 11.1% Indirect share and far above its 5.8% Minimal share — a profile where 924 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Home ranks
Within Washington, Home ranks higher (48th percentile) than it does nationally (30th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Home ranks 22,236 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,201 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 325 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Home and the insurance market
Home's moderate wildfire rating (30th 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.
Hardening a home in Home
Home's 83% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Home's 22,236-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Home, see the exposure-zones guide.