Sisco Heights, WA
Sisco Heights, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Sisco Heights sits at the 15th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 2,194 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Sisco Heights at the 16th percentile, close to its 15th-percentile risk score.
Where Sisco Heights's buildings actually sit
2,194 buildings are counted in Sisco Heights, and 96.7% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Sisco Heights against the rest of the country
Sisco Heights's risk sits at a similar level relative to Washington (19th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (15th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sisco Heights ranks 26,773 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,945 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 508 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Sisco Heights and the insurance market
At the 15th national percentile, Sisco Heights rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Sisco Heights's 96.7% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Sisco Heights's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,194 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sisco Heights. The exposure-zones guide covers what Sisco Heights's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.