Bayside Gardens, OR
Bayside Gardens, OR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Bayside Gardens's 796 buildings earn a 25th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bayside Gardens at the 24th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Bayside Gardens's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Bayside Gardens's buildings (73.5%) 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.
Where Bayside Gardens ranks
Bayside Gardens scores 25th nationally and 21st within Oregon — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bayside Gardens ranks 23,555 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,677 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 332 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Bayside Gardens and the insurance market
Because Bayside Gardens 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Bayside Gardens's 73.5% 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 Bayside Gardens's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 796 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Bayside Gardens. The exposure-zones guide covers what Bayside Gardens's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.