Picnic Point, WA
Picnic Point, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Picnic Point's 3,507 buildings earn a 7th-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 Picnic Point at the 7th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
Where Picnic Point's buildings actually sit
3,507 buildings are counted in Picnic Point, and 52.8% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 17.8% in Direct exposure or the 29.4% rated Minimal.
Where Picnic Point ranks
Picnic Point scores 7th nationally and 6th within Washington — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Picnic Point ranks 29,327 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,764 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 593 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 7th national percentile, Picnic Point rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Picnic Point's 52.8% 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 Picnic Point's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Picnic Point's 29,327-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Picnic Point's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.