Richland, WA
Richland, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Richland lands at the 90th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 22,604 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Richland's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 90th percentile nationally.
Richland's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 7.5% of Richland's 22,604 buildings carry Direct exposure and 29.1% carry Indirect; the remaining 63.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 22,604 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Richland ranks
There's little gap between Richland's 90th national percentile and its 81st percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Richland ranks 3,199 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 588 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 124 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Richland
Richland's very high rating (90th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
With 63.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Richland gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Richland's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Richland's 3,199-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Richland's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.