Canyon City, OR
Canyon City wildfire risk explained
Canyon City sits at the 92nd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 415 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Canyon City at the 91st percentile, close to its 92nd-percentile risk score.
Where Canyon City's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 69.4% of Canyon City's 415 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 30.6% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Canyon City against the rest of the country
Canyon City's risk sits at a similar level relative to Oregon (77th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (92nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Canyon City ranks 2,624 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,935 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 96 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Canyon City and the insurance market
Because Canyon City is in Oregon, a wildfire-hazard disclosure is legally required before a sale closes here — unusual nationally, since only these two states mandate it. Full detail in the disclosure-law guide.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 69.4% of Canyon City'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Canyon City's 2,624-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Canyon City, see the exposure-zones guide.