SeaTac, WA
SeaTac wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts SeaTac at the 7th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 8,548 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, SeaTac's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 7th percentile nationally.
Where SeaTac's buildings actually sit
Only 2% of SeaTac's 8,548 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 98% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 8,548 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How SeaTac compares
SeaTac scores 7th nationally and 5th 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, SeaTac ranks 29,455 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,943 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 598 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in SeaTac
SeaTac's low wildfire rating (7th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 98% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, SeaTac gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
SeaTac's 7th-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 SeaTac, see the exposure-zones guide.