Pataha, WA
Pataha wildfire risk explained
Pataha's 132 buildings earn a 87th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Pataha's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 88th percentile nationally.
Pataha's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 75.8% of Pataha's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 24.2% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 100 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Pataha against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Pataha's 87th national percentile and its 78th percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pataha ranks 3,988 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,646 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 139 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Pataha and the insurance market
Pataha's very high rating (87th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 75.8% of Pataha in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pataha's 3,988-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pataha, see the exposure-zones guide.