Lake Stickney, WA
Lake Stickney wildfire risk explained
Lake Stickney sits at the 6th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 3,533 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lake Stickney at the 6th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Lake Stickney's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 93% of Lake Stickney's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 7.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Lake Stickney compares
There's little gap between Lake Stickney's 6th national percentile and its 2nd percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lake Stickney ranks 29,800 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,736 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 614 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Lake Stickney and the insurance market
At the 6th national percentile, Lake Stickney rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 93% of Lake Stickney 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.
Where Lake Stickney's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lake Stickney's 29,800-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lake Stickney's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.