Northwest Stanwood, WA
How exposed is Northwest Stanwood to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Northwest Stanwood lands at the 13th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 119 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Northwest Stanwood at the 15th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Northwest Stanwood's buildings actually sit
Of Northwest Stanwood's 119 counted buildings, 85.7% 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.
Northwest Stanwood against the rest of the country
Northwest Stanwood's risk sits at a similar level relative to Washington (16th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (13th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Northwest Stanwood ranks 27,500 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,224 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 531 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Northwest Stanwood and the insurance market
Northwest Stanwood's low wildfire rating (13th 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
With 85.7% of Northwest Stanwood 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 119 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Northwest Stanwood. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Northwest Stanwood, see the exposure-zones guide.