Langley, WA
Langley wildfire risk explained
Langley's 776 buildings earn a 22nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Langley's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 21st percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 70.2% of Langley's 776 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 28.7% Direct and 1% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Langley compares
Langley scores 22nd nationally and 35th 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, Langley ranks 24,536 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,861 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 407 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Langley and the insurance market
Langley's moderate wildfire rating (22nd 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 70.2% of Langley's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Langley's 22nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Langley, see the exposure-zones guide.