Pe Ell, WA
How exposed is Pe Ell to wildfire?
Pe Ell's 465 buildings earn a 28th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pe Ell at the 30th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
72.5% of Pe Ell's 465 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 27.5% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Pe Ell against the rest of the country
Within Washington, Pe Ell ranks higher (46th percentile) than it does nationally (28th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pe Ell ranks 22,866 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,986 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 342 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pe Ell
Pe Ell's moderate wildfire rating (28th 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 Pe Ell
Pe Ell's 72.5% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pe Ell's 22,866-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Pe Ell, see the exposure-zones guide.