Mount Vista, WA
Mount Vista, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Mount Vista's 3,585 buildings earn a 25th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mount Vista at the 30th national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Mount Vista's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 79.6% of Mount Vista's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 20.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Mount Vista against the rest of the country
Mount Vista's 41st-percentile standing inside Washington outpaces its 25th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mount Vista ranks 23,654 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,675 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 369 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mount Vista
At the 25th national percentile, Mount Vista rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 79.6% of Mount Vista outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mount Vista's 23,654-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Mount Vista, see the exposure-zones guide.