Nisqually Indian Community, WA
How exposed is Nisqually Indian Community to wildfire?
USFS scores Nisqually Indian Community at the 30th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 316 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Nisqually Indian Community at the 32nd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Nisqually Indian Community's 316 counted buildings, 61.4% 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.
Nisqually Indian Community against the rest of the country
Compare Nisqually Indian Community's two percentiles: 48th within Washington, only 30th nationally — a gap of 19 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Nisqually Indian Community ranks 22,237 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,221 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 326 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Nisqually Indian Community
Nisqually Indian Community's moderate rating (30th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 61.4% of Nisqually Indian Community 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
Nisqually Indian Community's 30th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Nisqually Indian Community, see the exposure-zones guide.