Longview Heights, WA
Longview Heights wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Longview Heights at the 19th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,843 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Longview Heights at the 19th percentile, close to its 19th-percentile risk score.
Where Longview Heights's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Longview Heights: 57.8% of its 1,843 buildings, versus 42.2% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Longview Heights ranks
Longview Heights scores 19th nationally and 27th 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, Longview Heights ranks 25,702 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,938 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 461 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
Longview Heights's low wildfire rating (19th 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
With 57.8% of Longview Heights in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Longview Heights's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Longview Heights's 25,702-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Longview Heights's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.