Cape Meares, OR
Cape Meares, OR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Cape Meares's 232 buildings earn a 43rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Cape Meares's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 38th percentile nationally.
Cape Meares's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Cape Meares (53% of 232 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 46.6% sit in the Direct zone.
How Cape Meares compares
There's little gap between Cape Meares's 43rd national percentile and its 39th percentile inside Oregon, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cape Meares ranks 17,939 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,747 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 255 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Cape Meares and the insurance market
Because Cape Meares 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 53% of Cape Meares'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 Cape Meares's 17,939-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Cape Meares, see the exposure-zones guide.