Peaceful Valley, WA
How exposed is Peaceful Valley to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Peaceful Valley at the 62nd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,018 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Peaceful Valley's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 56th percentile nationally.
Peaceful Valley's building exposure, zone by zone
54.1% of Peaceful Valley's 1,018 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 45.9% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Peaceful Valley against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Peaceful Valley's 62nd national percentile and its 68th percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Peaceful Valley ranks 12,118 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,818 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 204 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Peaceful Valley
Peaceful Valley's 62nd-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
Because 54.1% of Peaceful Valley's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Peaceful Valley's 62nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Peaceful Valley, see the exposure-zones guide.