Port Gamble Tribal Community, WA
Port Gamble Tribal Community, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Port Gamble Tribal Community sits at the 19th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 516 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Port Gamble Tribal Community at the 19th percentile, close to its 19th-percentile risk score.
Port Gamble Tribal Community's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Port Gamble Tribal Community's 516 counted buildings, 89% carry Direct exposure and only 1% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Port Gamble Tribal Community against the rest of the country
Port Gamble Tribal Community scores 19th nationally and 27th 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, Port Gamble Tribal Community ranks 25,703 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,093 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 462 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
Port Gamble Tribal Community's low wildfire rating (19th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Port Gamble Tribal Community (89%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Port Gamble Tribal Community's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Port Gamble Tribal Community's 25,703-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Port Gamble Tribal Community's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.