Lynnwood, WA
How exposed is Lynnwood to wildfire?
Lynnwood sits at the 6th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 10,724 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lynnwood at the 6th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 1.9% of Lynnwood's 10,724 buildings carry Direct exposure and 28.3% carry Indirect; the remaining 69.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 10,724 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Lynnwood against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Lynnwood's 6th national percentile and its 4th percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lynnwood ranks 29,613 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,480 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 603 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Lynnwood and the insurance market
Lynnwood's low wildfire rating (6th 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 Lynnwood
With 69.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Lynnwood gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Lynnwood's 6th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Lynnwood, see the exposure-zones guide.