Mill Creek East, WA
Mill Creek East, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Mill Creek East at the 8th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 7,818 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 Mill Creek East at the 8th percentile, close to its 8th-percentile risk score.
Where Mill Creek East's buildings actually sit
Most of Mill Creek East's buildings (47.4%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 7,818 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Mill Creek East against the rest of the country
Mill Creek East's risk sits at a similar level relative to Washington (7th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (8th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mill Creek East ranks 29,076 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,173 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 583 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
Mill Creek East's low rating (8th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Mill Creek East's 47.4% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 7,818 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mill Creek East. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Mill Creek East, see the exposure-zones guide.