Beaver, OR
How exposed is Beaver to wildfire?
USFS scores Beaver at the 48th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 127 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Beaver at the 47th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Beaver's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Beaver: 65.4% of its 127 buildings, versus 34.7% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Beaver compares
Beaver's risk sits at a similar level relative to Oregon (44th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (48th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Beaver ranks 16,556 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,866 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 234 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Beaver and the insurance market
Beaver's 48th-percentile score lands in Oregon, the only two states requiring a wildfire disclosure at sale. Oregon's own hazard map feeds directly into that disclosure requirement. The disclosure-law guide covers what it requires.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Beaver (65.4%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 127 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Beaver. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Beaver, see the exposure-zones guide.