Latah, WA
Latah, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Latah lands at the 37th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 200 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Latah at the 35th percentile, close to its 37th-percentile risk score.
Latah's building exposure, zone by zone
68.5% of Latah's 200 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 31.5% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Latah against the rest of the country
Compare Latah's two percentiles: 56th within Washington, only 37th nationally — a gap of 18 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Latah ranks 19,842 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,867 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 281 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Latah's moderate rating (37th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Latah's 68.5% 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 Latah's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 200 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Latah. The exposure-zones guide covers what Latah's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.