Longview, WA
How exposed is Longview to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Longview lands at the 16th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 15,821 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Longview at the 17th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Longview's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 65.4% of Longview's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 7.2% Direct and 27.5% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 15,821 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Longview ranks
Longview scores 16th nationally and 22nd 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 ranks 26,429 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 930 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 491 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
At the 16th national percentile, Longview rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Longview's 65.4% 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 Longview's figures come from
Longview's 16th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Longview's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.