Roslyn, WA
Roslyn wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Roslyn at the 100th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 909 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Roslyn at the 99th percentile, close to its 100th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
909 buildings are counted in Roslyn, and 95.3% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 4.7% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Roslyn against the rest of the country
Roslyn scores 100th nationally and 98th 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, Roslyn ranks 172 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,651 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 10 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Roslyn and the insurance market
Roslyn's 100th-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 Roslyn (95.3% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Roslyn's 172-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Roslyn, see the exposure-zones guide.