Altamont, OR
How exposed is Altamont to wildfire?
Altamont sits at the 81st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 10,743 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Altamont's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 82nd percentile nationally.
Altamont's building exposure, zone by zone
56.1% of Altamont's 10,743 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 13.6% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 10,743 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Altamont ranks
Inside Oregon, Altamont sits at just the 62nd percentile even though it scores 81st 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, Altamont ranks 6,057 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,477 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 161 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Altamont and the insurance market
Because Altamont is in Oregon, a wildfire-hazard disclosure is legally required before a sale closes here — unusual nationally, since only these two states mandate it. Full detail in the disclosure-law guide.
Hardening a home in Altamont
Even with 56.1% of Altamont outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Altamont's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Altamont's 6,057-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Altamont's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.