Brookings, OR
How exposed is Brookings to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Brookings at the 97th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 3,204 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Brookings at the 94th percentile, close to its 97th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 90% of Brookings's 3,204 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 9.6% Direct and 0.4% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Brookings against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Brookings's 97th national percentile and its 88th percentile inside Oregon, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brookings ranks 1,017 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,160 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 47 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Brookings
Brookings's 97th-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
Because 90% of Brookings's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,204 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Brookings. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Brookings, see the exposure-zones guide.