Shelton, WA
How exposed is Shelton to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Shelton at the 25th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 4,337 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 Shelton at the 26th percentile, close to its 25th-percentile risk score.
Shelton's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 93.2% of Shelton's 4,337 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 6.7% Direct and 0.1% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Shelton compares
Within Washington, Shelton ranks higher (42nd percentile) than it does nationally (25th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Shelton ranks 23,623 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,949 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 366 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
Shelton's moderate rating (25th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 93.2% of Shelton'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,337 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Shelton. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Shelton, see the exposure-zones guide.