May Creek, WA
How exposed is May Creek to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts May Creek at the 43rd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 410 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts May Creek at the 40th percentile, close to its 43rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
410 buildings are counted in May Creek, and 59.8% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 40.2% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
May Creek against the rest of the country
May Creek's 59th-percentile standing inside Washington outpaces its 43rd 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, May Creek ranks 17,887 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,042 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 258 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
May Creek and the insurance market
May Creek's elevated wildfire rating (43rd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 59.8% of May Creek's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
May Creek's 43rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond May Creek, see the exposure-zones guide.