Black Butte Ranch, OR
Black Butte Ranch wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Black Butte Ranch lands at the 92nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 1,099 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Black Butte Ranch at the 93rd percentile, close to its 92nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Black Butte Ranch: 99.8% of its 1,099 buildings, versus 0.2% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Black Butte Ranch ranks
Inside Oregon, Black Butte Ranch sits at just the 76th percentile even though it scores 92nd nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Black Butte Ranch ranks 2,685 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,279 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 100 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Black Butte Ranch and the insurance market
Black Butte Ranch's 92nd-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Black Butte Ranch's 99.8% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Black Butte Ranch's 2,685-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Black Butte Ranch, see the exposure-zones guide.