Washington, UT
Washington, UT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Washington lands at the 91st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 12,287 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Washington at the 92nd percentile, close to its 91st-percentile risk score.
Washington's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Washington (61.9% of 12,287 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 34.7% sit in the Direct zone. At 12,287 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Washington compares
Inside Utah, Washington sits at just the 58th percentile even though it scores 91st nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Washington ranks 2,975 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,260 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 138 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Washington and the insurance market
Washington's very high rating (91st percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Washington
Because 61.9% of Washington'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.
Where Washington's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Washington's 2,975-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Washington's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.