Tumwater, WA
Tumwater, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Tumwater sits at the 19th 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 10,676 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Tumwater's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 21st percentile nationally.
Tumwater's building exposure, zone by zone
Tumwater rates 46.7% Minimal exposure against just 14.8% Direct and 38.5% Indirect — of 10,676 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 10,676 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Tumwater against the rest of the country
Tumwater's risk sits at a similar level relative to Washington (28th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (19th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tumwater ranks 25,576 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,488 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 455 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Tumwater and the insurance market
At the 19th national percentile, Tumwater 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 Tumwater
With 46.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Tumwater gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Tumwater's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Tumwater's 25,576-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Tumwater's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.