Oakesdale, WA
Oakesdale wildfire risk explained
Oakesdale sits at the 9th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 373 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Oakesdale at the 9th percentile, close to its 9th-percentile risk score.
Where Oakesdale's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 86.3% of Oakesdale's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 13.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Oakesdale against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Oakesdale's 9th national percentile and its 9th percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Oakesdale ranks 28,634 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,816 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 572 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Oakesdale and the insurance market
At the 9th national percentile, Oakesdale rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 86.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Oakesdale gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Oakesdale's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Oakesdale's 28,634-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Oakesdale's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.