Starbuck, WA
How exposed is Starbuck to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Starbuck lands at the 93rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 159 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Starbuck's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 94th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Starbuck (61% of 159 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 39% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Starbuck ranks
There's little gap between Starbuck's 93rd national percentile and its 85th percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Starbuck ranks 2,126 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,507 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 98 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Starbuck and the insurance market
Starbuck's 93rd-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Starbuck
Because 61% of Starbuck'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 159 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Starbuck. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Starbuck, see the exposure-zones guide.