Ashland, OR
How exposed is Ashland to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Ashland at the 97th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 9,158 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Ashland at the 96th percentile, close to its 97th-percentile risk score.
Where Ashland's buildings actually sit
86.1% of Ashland's 9,158 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 13.9% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone. At 9,158 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Ashland ranks
Ashland's risk sits at a similar level relative to Oregon (89th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (97th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ashland ranks 1,016 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,804 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 46 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Ashland and the insurance market
Because Ashland 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 Ashland
Ashland's 86.1% 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.
Where Ashland's figures come from
Ashland's 97th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Ashland's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.