Parker, WA
Parker wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Parker at the 94th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 123 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Parker at the 96th percentile, close to its 94th-percentile risk score.
Where Parker's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 84.6% of Parker's 123 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 15.5% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Parker compares
Parker's risk sits at a similar level relative to Washington (86th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (94th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Parker ranks 1,810 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,043 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 92 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Parker
Parker's very high rating (94th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Parker
Parker's 84.6% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Parker's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 123 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Parker. The exposure-zones guide covers what Parker's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.