Prescott, WA
How exposed is Prescott to wildfire?
Prescott's 240 buildings earn a 84th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Prescott at the 86th national percentile — 3 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
Indirect exposure is dominant in Prescott (80.8% of 240 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 19.2% sit in the Direct zone.
How Prescott compares
Prescott's risk sits at a similar level relative to Washington (75th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (84th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Prescott ranks 5,183 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,488 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 156 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Prescott and the insurance market
Prescott's 84th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Prescott (80.8% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Prescott's figures come from
Prescott's 84th-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 Prescott's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.