Normandy Park, WA
Normandy Park, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Normandy Park's 2,764 buildings earn a 6th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Normandy Park at the 6th national percentile — 0 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
86.1% of Normandy Park's 2,764 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 13.9% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Normandy Park compares
There's little gap between Normandy Park's 6th national percentile and its 3rd percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Normandy Park ranks 29,677 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,829 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 610 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Normandy Park's low wildfire rating (6th 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
Even with 86.1% of Normandy Park outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Normandy Park's figures come from
Normandy Park's 6th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Normandy Park's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.