Silver Firs, WA
Silver Firs, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Silver Firs at the 8th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 7,368 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Silver Firs at the 9th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Silver Firs's buildings actually sit
Silver Firs rates 77% Minimal exposure against just 15.3% Direct and 7.7% Indirect — of 7,368 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 7,368 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Silver Firs compares
Silver Firs scores 8th nationally and 8th 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, Silver Firs ranks 29,046 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,316 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 581 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Silver Firs and the insurance market
Silver Firs's low rating (8th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Silver Firs
Silver Firs's 77% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Silver Firs's figures come from
Silver Firs's 8th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Silver Firs's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.