Southworth, WA
How exposed is Southworth to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Southworth lands at the 20th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,335 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Southworth at the 20th percentile, close to its 20th-percentile risk score.
Southworth's building exposure, zone by zone
1,335 buildings are counted in Southworth, and 68.5% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 9.1% rated Minimal.
Southworth against the rest of the country
Southworth's risk sits at a similar level relative to Washington (29th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (20th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Southworth ranks 25,385 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,912 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 445 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
Southworth's low wildfire rating (20th 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 68.5% of Southworth in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,335 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Southworth. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Southworth, see the exposure-zones guide.