Outlook, WA
How exposed is Outlook to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Outlook lands at the 68th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 125 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Outlook at the 70th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Outlook's building exposure, zone by zone
Outlook rates 79.2% Minimal exposure against just 20.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 125 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Outlook compares
There's little gap between Outlook's 68th national percentile and its 71st percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Outlook ranks 10,039 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,968 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 185 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Outlook and the insurance market
Outlook's 68th-percentile, 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 79.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Outlook 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 125 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Outlook. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Outlook, see the exposure-zones guide.