Malone, WA
Malone wildfire risk explained
Malone sits at the 30th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 329 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Malone at the 32nd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Malone's building exposure, zone by zone
329 buildings are counted in Malone, and 80.9% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Malone against the rest of the country
Malone's 49th-percentile standing inside Washington outpaces its 30th 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, Malone ranks 22,044 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,863 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 318 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Malone and the insurance market
At the 30th national percentile, Malone rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Malone's 80.9% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Malone's 22,044-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Malone, see the exposure-zones guide.