Lacey, WA
Lacey, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Lacey lands at the 17th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 19,323 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lacey at the 19th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Lacey rates 60.1% Minimal exposure against just 6.8% Direct and 33.2% Indirect — of 19,323 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 19,323 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Lacey against the rest of the country
Lacey's risk sits at a similar level relative to Washington (23rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (17th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lacey ranks 26,270 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 735 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 486 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lacey
Lacey's low wildfire rating (17th 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 Lacey
Lacey's 60.1% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Lacey's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lacey's 26,270-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lacey's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.