Prairie Ridge, WA
How exposed is Prairie Ridge to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Prairie Ridge lands at the 23rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 5,246 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Prairie Ridge at the 24th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Prairie Ridge's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 89.7% of Prairie Ridge's 5,246 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 7.6% Direct and 2.7% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 5,246 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Prairie Ridge against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Prairie Ridge's 23rd national percentile and its 37th percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Prairie Ridge ranks 24,347 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,287 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 397 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Prairie Ridge
Prairie Ridge's moderate rating (23rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Prairie Ridge
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Prairie Ridge (89.7% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Prairie Ridge's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Prairie Ridge's 24,347-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Prairie Ridge's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.