Minnehaha, WA
Minnehaha wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Minnehaha at the 8th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 4,483 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Minnehaha at the 10th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Minnehaha's buildings (98.5% of 4,483) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Where Minnehaha ranks
There's little gap between Minnehaha's 8th national percentile and its 8th percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Minnehaha ranks 28,983 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,810 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 578 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Minnehaha and the insurance market
Minnehaha'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.
Hardening a home in Minnehaha
With 98.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Minnehaha 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Minnehaha's 28,983-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Minnehaha, see the exposure-zones guide.