Beaverton, OR
Beaverton wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Beaverton at the 20th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 26,877 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Beaverton at the 22nd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Beaverton's building exposure, zone by zone
Beaverton rates 97.6% Minimal exposure against just 2.1% Direct and 0.3% Indirect — of 26,877 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 26,877 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Beaverton against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Beaverton's 20th national percentile and its 13th percentile inside Oregon, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Beaverton ranks 25,164 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 459 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 366 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Beaverton
Because Beaverton 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
With 97.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Beaverton gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 26,877 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Beaverton. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Beaverton, see the exposure-zones guide.