Port Angeles East, WA
How exposed is Port Angeles East to wildfire?
Port Angeles East sits at the 30th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 2,180 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Port Angeles East at the 32nd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Port Angeles East's building exposure, zone by zone
2,180 buildings are counted in Port Angeles East, and 80.4% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 19.6% in Direct exposure or the 0.1% rated Minimal.
How Port Angeles East compares
Port Angeles East's 49th-percentile standing inside Washington outpaces its 30th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Port Angeles East ranks 22,205 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,993 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 324 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 30th national percentile, Port Angeles East rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Port Angeles East's 80.4% 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 Port Angeles East's 22,205-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Port Angeles East, see the exposure-zones guide.