Sunnyslope, WA
Sunnyslope, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Sunnyslope at the 98th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 1,822 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sunnyslope at the 99th national percentile — 1 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
Of Sunnyslope's 1,822 counted buildings, 54.7% carry Direct exposure and only 1.3% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Sunnyslope ranks
Sunnyslope's risk sits at a similar level relative to Washington (96th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (98th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sunnyslope ranks 615 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,000 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 27 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Sunnyslope and the insurance market
At the 98th percentile nationally, Sunnyslope 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Sunnyslope (54.7%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sunnyslope's 615-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Sunnyslope, see the exposure-zones guide.