Lexington, WA
How exposed is Lexington to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Lexington lands at the 20th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,531 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 Lexington at the 20th percentile, close to its 20th-percentile risk score.
Where Lexington's buildings actually sit
Most of Lexington's buildings (92.9%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Lexington against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Lexington's 20th national percentile and its 31st percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lexington ranks 25,136 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,033 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 433 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lexington
Lexington's moderate wildfire rating (20th 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
Lexington's 92.9% 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.
Where Lexington's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lexington's 25,136-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lexington's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.