Sultan, WA
Sultan, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Sultan lands at the 30th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 2,245 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 Sultan at the 30th percentile, close to its 30th-percentile risk score.
Sultan's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Sultan's buildings (76.2%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Sultan ranks
Sultan's 49th-percentile standing inside Washington outpaces its 30th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sultan ranks 22,140 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,825 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 319 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
Sultan's moderate wildfire rating (30th 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.
Hardening a home in Sultan
Sultan's 76.2% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Sultan's 30th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Sultan, see the exposure-zones guide.