Suncrest, WA
How exposed is Suncrest to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Suncrest at the 92nd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 3,373 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 Suncrest at the 92nd percentile, close to its 92nd-percentile risk score.
Suncrest's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 53.6% of Suncrest's 3,373 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 45.3% Direct and 1.1% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Suncrest compares
Suncrest scores 92nd nationally and 82nd within Washington — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Suncrest ranks 2,661 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,954 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 114 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Suncrest
At the 92nd percentile nationally, Suncrest carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Suncrest
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Suncrest (53.6% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Suncrest's 92nd-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 Suncrest, see the exposure-zones guide.