Tukwila, WA
How exposed is Tukwila to wildfire?
Tukwila sits at the 6th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 6,172 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Tukwila at the 6th percentile, close to its 6th-percentile risk score.
Where Tukwila's buildings actually sit
Most of Tukwila's buildings (97.7% of 6,172) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 6,172 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Tukwila compares
Tukwila's risk sits at a similar level relative to Washington (2nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (6th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tukwila ranks 29,771 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,811 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 613 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tukwila
At the 6th national percentile, Tukwila rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Tukwila
Even with 97.7% of Tukwila outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Tukwila's 6th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Tukwila, see the exposure-zones guide.