Keller, WA
How exposed is Keller to wildfire?
USFS scores Keller at the 99th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 148 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Keller at the 99th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Keller's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Keller: 96% of its 148 buildings, versus 4.1% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Keller ranks
There's little gap between Keller's 99th national percentile and its 97th percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Keller ranks 331 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,973 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 19 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Keller and the insurance market
At the 99th percentile nationally, Keller carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
With 96% of Keller 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Keller's 331-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Keller, see the exposure-zones guide.