Renton, WA
How exposed is Renton to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Renton lands at the 20th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 30,511 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Renton's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 18th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 4.4% of Renton's 30,511 buildings carry Direct exposure and 15.9% carry Indirect; the remaining 79.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 30,511 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Renton against the rest of the country
Renton's risk sits at a similar level relative to Washington (30th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (20th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Renton ranks 25,356 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 373 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 444 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
Renton's low wildfire rating (20th 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.
Hardening a home in Renton
Even with 79.8% of Renton outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Renton's 20th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Renton, see the exposure-zones guide.