Steptoe, WA
Steptoe, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Steptoe at the 27th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 183 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 Steptoe at the 26th percentile, close to its 27th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Steptoe's buildings (82% of 183) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Where Steptoe ranks
Within Washington, Steptoe ranks higher (45th percentile) than it does nationally (27th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Steptoe ranks 23,023 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,518 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 345 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Steptoe
Steptoe's moderate rating (27th 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 Steptoe
With 82% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Steptoe gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Steptoe's 23,023-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Steptoe, see the exposure-zones guide.