Lake Forest Park, WA
Lake Forest Park, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Lake Forest Park lands at the 6th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 5,094 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Lake Forest Park's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 6th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
86.7% of Lake Forest Park's 5,094 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 13.3% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 5,094 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Lake Forest Park compares
Lake Forest Park's risk sits at a similar level relative to Washington (4th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (6th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lake Forest Park ranks 29,580 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,383 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 601 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Lake Forest Park and the insurance market
Lake Forest Park's low wildfire rating (6th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Lake Forest Park's 86.7% 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 Lake Forest Park's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 5,094 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Lake Forest Park. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lake Forest Park's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.