Mansfield, WA
Mansfield wildfire risk explained
Mansfield's 263 buildings earn a 95th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mansfield at the 96th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
96.6% of Mansfield's 263 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 3.4% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Mansfield ranks
There's little gap between Mansfield's 95th national percentile and its 88th percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mansfield ranks 1,462 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,763 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 79 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mansfield
Mansfield's 95th-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Mansfield's 96.6% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 263 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mansfield. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Mansfield, see the exposure-zones guide.