Hoquiam, WA
How exposed is Hoquiam to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Hoquiam at the 20th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 3,992 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 Hoquiam at the 20th percentile, close to its 20th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Hoquiam (92.7% of 3,992 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 5.9% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Hoquiam ranks
There's little gap between Hoquiam's 20th national percentile and its 31st percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hoquiam ranks 25,262 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,253 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 435 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Hoquiam and the insurance market
At the 20th national percentile, Hoquiam rates low 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 Hoquiam
Hoquiam's 92.7% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,992 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Hoquiam. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Hoquiam, see the exposure-zones guide.