Pacific, WA
Pacific, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Pacific's 2,569 buildings earn a 11th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Pacific at the 12th percentile, close to its 11th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Pacific rates 94.6% Minimal exposure against just 5.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 2,569 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Pacific against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Pacific's 11th national percentile and its 12th percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pacific ranks 28,035 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,164 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 555 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pacific
Pacific's low wildfire rating (11th 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
Pacific's 94.6% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Pacific's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,569 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Pacific. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pacific's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.