Rainier, WA
Rainier, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Rainier at the 47th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,160 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Rainier at the 51st percentile, close to its 47th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
1,160 buildings are counted in Rainier, and 60.9% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 39.1% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Rainier compares
Rainier scores 47th nationally and 61st 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, Rainier ranks 16,594 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,894 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 246 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 47th national percentile, Rainier rates elevated 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
Because 60.9% of Rainier's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Rainier's 16,594-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Rainier, see the exposure-zones guide.