Burns, OR
Burns wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Burns lands at the 93rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 1,817 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 Burns at the 95th percentile, close to its 93rd-percentile risk score.
Where Burns's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 76.5% of Burns's 1,817 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 23.5% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Burns against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Burns's 93rd national percentile and its 79th percentile inside Oregon, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Burns ranks 2,277 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,014 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 90 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Burns
Burns's 93rd-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 76.5% of Burns'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 1,817 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Burns. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Burns, see the exposure-zones guide.