Naselle, WA
How exposed is Naselle to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Naselle lands at the 32nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 356 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Naselle at the 31st percentile, close to its 32nd-percentile risk score.
Where Naselle's buildings actually sit
Of Naselle's 356 counted buildings, 83.7% carry Direct exposure and only 0.3% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Naselle against the rest of the country
Within Washington, Naselle ranks higher (51st percentile) than it does nationally (32nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Naselle ranks 21,603 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,175 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 311 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Naselle and the insurance market
Naselle's moderate wildfire rating (32nd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
With 83.7% of Naselle in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Naselle's 21,603-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Naselle, see the exposure-zones guide.