Orting, WA
Orting wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Orting lands at the 24th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 3,314 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Orting's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 25th percentile nationally.
Where Orting's buildings actually sit
3,314 buildings are counted in Orting, and 95.7% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 4.3% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Orting ranks
Orting's risk sits at a similar level relative to Washington (39th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (24th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Orting ranks 23,999 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,028 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 385 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Orting and the insurance market
Orting's moderate wildfire rating (24th 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.
Hardening a home in Orting
Because 95.7% of Orting's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Orting's 23,999-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Orting, see the exposure-zones guide.