Kenmore, WA
How exposed is Kenmore to wildfire?
Kenmore's 7,932 buildings earn a 7th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kenmore at the 7th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
Where Kenmore's buildings actually sit
Most of Kenmore's buildings (88.8% of 7,932) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 7,932 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Kenmore ranks
Kenmore's risk sits at a similar level relative to Washington (6th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (7th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kenmore ranks 29,295 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,133 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 589 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Kenmore and the insurance market
At the 7th national percentile, Kenmore 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 Kenmore
Even with 88.8% of Kenmore outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kenmore's 29,295-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Kenmore, see the exposure-zones guide.