Port Orchard, WA
How exposed is Port Orchard to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Port Orchard lands at the 22nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 5,264 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Port Orchard at the 23rd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Port Orchard rates 45.4% Minimal exposure against just 26.9% Direct and 27.7% Indirect — of 5,264 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 5,264 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Port Orchard ranks
There's little gap between Port Orchard's 22nd national percentile and its 35th percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Port Orchard ranks 24,537 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,277 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 408 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Port Orchard and the insurance market
Port Orchard's moderate rating (22nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Port Orchard's 45.4% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Port Orchard's 24,537-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Port Orchard, see the exposure-zones guide.