Baker City, OR
Baker City, OR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Baker City sits at the 91st 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 6,101 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Baker City at the 90th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Baker City's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Baker City (89.7% of 6,101 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 9% sit in the Direct zone. At 6,101 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Baker City ranks
Baker City's 91st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 75th ranking inside Oregon does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 16 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Baker City ranks 2,964 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,838 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 105 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Baker City
Because Baker City 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
Because 89.7% of Baker City'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 Baker City's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Baker City's 2,964-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Baker City's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.