Lyman, WA
Lyman wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lyman at the 37th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 312 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Lyman's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 36th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Lyman's buildings (64.1%) 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.
How Lyman compares
Lyman's 55th-percentile standing inside Washington outpaces its 37th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lyman ranks 19,871 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,331 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 282 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lyman
Lyman's moderate wildfire rating (37th 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.
Hardening a home in Lyman
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Lyman (64.1% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lyman's 19,871-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Lyman, see the exposure-zones guide.