WildfireRiskFinder

Napavine, WA

Napavine, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers

Moderate
25thpercentile nationally

Napavine's 1,025 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.)

USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Napavine at the 30th percentile, close to its 25th-percentile risk score.

Where Napavine's buildings actually sit

1,025Total buildings
21.2%Direct exposure
78.8%Indirect exposure
0%Minimal exposure

Most of Napavine's buildings (78.8%) 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.

Where Napavine ranks

Napavine's 42nd-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, Napavine ranks 23,589 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,764 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 364 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.

Napavine and the insurance market

At the 25th national percentile, Napavine 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

Because 78.8% of Napavine's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.

More on how this number was built

The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,025 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Napavine. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Napavine, see the exposure-zones guide.