Mesa, WA
How exposed is Mesa to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Mesa lands at the 93rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 200 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mesa at the 94th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Mesa's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 82% of Mesa's 200 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 18% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Mesa ranks
There's little gap between Mesa's 93rd national percentile and its 84th percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mesa ranks 2,160 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,868 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 100 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mesa
Mesa's 93rd-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.
Hardening a home in Mesa
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Mesa (82% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Mesa's 93rd-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 Mesa, see the exposure-zones guide.