Klickitat, WA
Klickitat, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Klickitat sits at the 99th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 272 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Klickitat at the 100th percentile, close to its 99th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 88.2% of Klickitat's 272 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 11.8% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Klickitat against the rest of the country
Klickitat scores 99th nationally and 98th within Washington — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Klickitat ranks 205 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,453 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 13 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Klickitat
At the 99th percentile nationally, Klickitat 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.
Hardening a home in Klickitat
Because 88.2% of Klickitat's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 272 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Klickitat. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Klickitat, see the exposure-zones guide.