Bethany, OR
Bethany, OR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Bethany's 9,340 buildings earn a 33rd-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 Bethany at the 32nd national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Bethany's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Bethany's buildings (76.9% of 9,340) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 9,340 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Bethany compares
Bethany's risk sits at a similar level relative to Oregon (31st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (33rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bethany ranks 21,284 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,757 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 291 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Bethany sits in Oregon, one of two states that legally require a wildfire-risk disclosure at sale. Sellers here disclose wildfire-hazard status before closing, the same number this page reports at the 33rd national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Bethany
With 76.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Bethany 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
Bethany's 33rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Bethany, see the exposure-zones guide.