Aumsville, OR
Aumsville wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Aumsville at the 21st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 1,569 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Aumsville at the 24th percentile, close to its 21st-percentile risk score.
Where Aumsville's buildings actually sit
Most of Aumsville's buildings (64.2%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Aumsville against the rest of the country
Aumsville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Oregon (15th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (21st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Aumsville ranks 24,905 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,891 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 357 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Aumsville
Because Aumsville 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Aumsville (64.2% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Aumsville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Aumsville's 24,905-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Aumsville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.