Taholah, WA
How exposed is Taholah to wildfire?
Taholah's 326 buildings earn a 37th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Taholah's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 30th percentile nationally.
Taholah's building exposure, zone by zone
326 buildings are counted in Taholah, and 86.5% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 12% in Direct exposure or the 1.5% rated Minimal.
Where Taholah ranks
Taholah's 55th-percentile standing inside Washington outpaces its 37th 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, Taholah ranks 19,902 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,941 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 283 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Taholah and the insurance market
At the 37th national percentile, Taholah rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 86.5% of Taholah's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Taholah's 37th-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 Taholah, see the exposure-zones guide.