Suquamish, WA
Suquamish wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Suquamish at the 19th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 2,194 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Suquamish at the 19th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Suquamish's buildings actually sit
49.4% of Suquamish's 2,194 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 46.1% Direct and 4.5% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Suquamish compares
Suquamish scores 19th nationally and 28th 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, Suquamish ranks 25,511 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,946 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 451 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Suquamish
Suquamish's low rating (19th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Suquamish (49.4% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Suquamish's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Suquamish's 25,511-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Suquamish's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.