Martha Lake, WA
How exposed is Martha Lake to wildfire?
USFS scores Martha Lake at the 6th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 6,269 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Martha Lake at the 6th percentile, close to its 6th-percentile risk score.
Where Martha Lake's buildings actually sit
Most of Martha Lake's buildings (83.8% of 6,269) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 6,269 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Martha Lake against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Martha Lake's 6th national percentile and its 3rd percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Martha Lake ranks 29,676 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,768 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 609 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Martha Lake
Martha Lake's low rating (6th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Martha Lake
With 83.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Martha Lake gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Martha Lake's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Martha Lake's 29,676-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Martha Lake's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.