Leavenworth, WA
Leavenworth, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Leavenworth at the 100th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 1,242 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Leavenworth at the 100th percentile, close to its 100th-percentile risk score.
Leavenworth's building exposure, zone by zone
1,242 buildings are counted in Leavenworth, and 90.2% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 9.8% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Leavenworth against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Leavenworth's 100th national percentile and its 99th percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Leavenworth ranks 111 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,393 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 5 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Leavenworth
Leavenworth's very high rating (100th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Leavenworth's 90.2% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,242 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Leavenworth. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Leavenworth, see the exposure-zones guide.