Midland, WA
Midland wildfire risk explained
Midland's 4,109 buildings earn a 13th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Midland at the 14th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Midland's buildings actually sit
Only 6.2% of Midland's 4,109 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 93.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Midland compares
Midland's risk sits at a similar level relative to Washington (15th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (13th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Midland ranks 27,564 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,135 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 535 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Midland and the insurance market
Midland's low rating (13th 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 Midland
Midland's 93.8% 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.
Where Midland's figures come from
Midland's 13th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Midland's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.