Nile, WA
Nile wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Nile at the 100th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 180 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Nile's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 100th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Nile's 180 counted buildings, 97.2% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Nile against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Nile's 100th national percentile and its 100th percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Nile ranks 79 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,653 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 4 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Nile
At the 100th percentile nationally, Nile carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Nile (97.2%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Nile's 79-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Nile, see the exposure-zones guide.