Union Hill-Novelty Hill, WA
How exposed is Union Hill-Novelty Hill to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Union Hill-Novelty Hill lands at the 17th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 9,208 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Union Hill-Novelty Hill at the 18th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Union Hill-Novelty Hill's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 60.7% of Union Hill-Novelty Hill's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 37.1% Indirect share and far above its 2.2% Minimal share — a profile where 5,590 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most. At 9,208 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Union Hill-Novelty Hill compares
Union Hill-Novelty Hill's risk sits at a similar level relative to Washington (24th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (17th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Union Hill-Novelty Hill ranks 26,082 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,790 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 478 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Union Hill-Novelty Hill and the insurance market
Union Hill-Novelty Hill's low rating (17th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Union Hill-Novelty Hill
Because Direct exposure dominates in Union Hill-Novelty Hill (60.7%), 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 Union Hill-Novelty Hill's 26,082-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Union Hill-Novelty Hill, see the exposure-zones guide.