Warm Beach, WA
How exposed is Warm Beach to wildfire?
Warm Beach sits at the 14th 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 1,723 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Warm Beach at the 13th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Warm Beach's buildings actually sit
Of Warm Beach's 1,723 counted buildings, 59.8% carry Direct exposure and only 3% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Warm Beach against the rest of the country
Warm Beach scores 14th nationally and 17th 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, Warm Beach ranks 27,122 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,329 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 520 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Warm Beach
At the 14th national percentile, Warm Beach rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 59.8% of Warm Beach in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Warm Beach's 14th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Warm Beach, see the exposure-zones guide.