West Clarkston-Highland, WA
West Clarkston-Highland, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores West Clarkston-Highland at the 87th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 3,101 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks West Clarkston-Highland at the 89th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
West Clarkston-Highland's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 85.7% of West Clarkston-Highland's 3,101 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 12.8% Direct and 1.5% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How West Clarkston-Highland compares
West Clarkston-Highland scores 87th nationally and 77th 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, West Clarkston-Highland ranks 4,238 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,291 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 143 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in West Clarkston-Highland
West Clarkston-Highland's 87th-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in West Clarkston-Highland
West Clarkston-Highland's 85.7% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,101 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for West Clarkston-Highland. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond West Clarkston-Highland, see the exposure-zones guide.