Navy Yard City, WA
How exposed is Navy Yard City to wildfire?
Navy Yard City's 1,105 buildings earn a 19th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Navy Yard City's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 19th percentile nationally.
Navy Yard City's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Navy Yard City (98.9% of 1,105 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 1.1% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Navy Yard City ranks
There's little gap between Navy Yard City's 19th national percentile and its 28th percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Navy Yard City ranks 25,510 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,254 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 450 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Navy Yard City
Navy Yard City's low rating (19th 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 Navy Yard City
Navy Yard City's 98.9% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Navy Yard City's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Navy Yard City's 25,510-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Navy Yard City's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.