Boring, OR
Boring wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Boring at the 50th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,622 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Boring's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 54th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Boring's 1,622 counted buildings, 66% carry Direct exposure and only 4.3% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Boring compares
Boring's risk sits at a similar level relative to Oregon (46th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (50th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Boring ranks 15,828 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,686 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 226 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Boring and the insurance market
Boring 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 50th national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Boring (66%), 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Boring's 15,828-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Boring, see the exposure-zones guide.