Northport, WA
Northport, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Northport sits at the 89th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 325 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Northport's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 90th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
325 buildings are counted in Northport, and 90.2% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 9.9% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Northport against the rest of the country
Northport scores 89th nationally and 80th within Washington — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Northport ranks 3,356 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,976 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 127 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Northport and the insurance market
Northport's 89th-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Northport (90.2% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Northport's 3,356-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Northport, see the exposure-zones guide.