Sunday Lake, WA
How exposed is Sunday Lake to wildfire?
USFS scores Sunday Lake at the 16th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 656 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sunday Lake at the 18th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 83.4% of Sunday Lake's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 16.3% Indirect share and far above its 0.3% Minimal share — a profile where 547 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Sunday Lake compares
There's little gap between Sunday Lake's 16th national percentile and its 20th percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sunday Lake ranks 26,650 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,124 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 501 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Sunday Lake and the insurance market
Sunday Lake's low wildfire rating (16th 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 Sunday Lake
With 83.4% of Sunday Lake 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 656 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sunday Lake. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Sunday Lake, see the exposure-zones guide.