Ocean Park, WA
How exposed is Ocean Park to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Ocean Park lands at the 12th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 2,488 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Ocean Park's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 12th percentile nationally.
Ocean Park's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 49.6% of Ocean Park's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 15.1% Direct and 35.4% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Ocean Park ranks
There's little gap between Ocean Park's 12th national percentile and its 13th percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ocean Park ranks 27,878 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,323 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 547 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Ocean Park and the insurance market
Ocean Park's low rating (12th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Ocean Park
With 49.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Ocean Park gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,488 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Ocean Park. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Ocean Park, see the exposure-zones guide.