Medina, WA
How exposed is Medina to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Medina lands at the 5th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,429 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Medina at the 5th percentile, close to its 5th-percentile risk score.
Where Medina's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 90.6% of Medina's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 9.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Medina ranks
There's little gap between Medina's 5th national percentile and its 1st percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Medina ranks 30,118 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,481 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 624 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Medina's low rating (5th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 90.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Medina 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
Medina's 5th-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 Medina, see the exposure-zones guide.