Pomeroy, WA
How exposed is Pomeroy to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pomeroy at the 90th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 1,038 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pomeroy at the 91st national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Pomeroy's building exposure, zone by zone
80.1% of Pomeroy's 1,038 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 19.9% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Pomeroy against the rest of the country
Pomeroy's risk sits at a similar level relative to Washington (80th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (90th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pomeroy ranks 3,198 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,676 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 123 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Pomeroy and the insurance market
Pomeroy's 90th-percentile, very 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
Pomeroy's 80.1% 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 Pomeroy's figures come from
Pomeroy's 90th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pomeroy's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.