Lake Roesiger, WA
How exposed is Lake Roesiger to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lake Roesiger at the 34th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 486 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lake Roesiger at the 32nd national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Lake Roesiger's buildings actually sit
486 buildings are counted in Lake Roesiger, and 83.5% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 12.4% rated Minimal.
Lake Roesiger against the rest of the country
Lake Roesiger's 53rd-percentile standing inside Washington outpaces its 34th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lake Roesiger ranks 20,719 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,604 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 295 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Lake Roesiger and the insurance market
Lake Roesiger's moderate wildfire rating (34th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Lake Roesiger (83.5%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Lake Roesiger's figures come from
Lake Roesiger's 34th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lake Roesiger's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.