Mukilteo, WA
Mukilteo, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Mukilteo at the 7th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 6,683 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mukilteo at the 7th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Mukilteo's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 85.7% of Mukilteo's 6,683 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 10% Direct and 4.3% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 6,683 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Mukilteo compares
There's little gap between Mukilteo's 7th national percentile and its 5th percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mukilteo ranks 29,361 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,593 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 595 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
At the 7th national percentile, Mukilteo rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Mukilteo (85.7% 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
Mukilteo's 7th-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 Mukilteo, see the exposure-zones guide.