Lakeland North, WA
Lakeland North, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Lakeland North at the 10th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 4,610 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Lakeland North's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 11th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 94.4% of Lakeland North's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 5.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Lakeland North ranks
Lakeland North scores 10th nationally and 10th 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, Lakeland North ranks 28,382 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,694 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 563 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Lakeland North and the insurance market
Lakeland North's low wildfire rating (10th 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 Lakeland North
Lakeland North's 94.4% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,610 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Lakeland North. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Lakeland North, see the exposure-zones guide.