Cascade Locks, OR
Cascade Locks wildfire risk explained
Cascade Locks's 731 buildings earn a 72nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Cascade Locks at the 72nd percentile, close to its 72nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 59.1% of Cascade Locks's 731 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 40.6% Direct and 0.3% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Cascade Locks ranks
Inside Oregon, Cascade Locks sits at just the 56th percentile even though it scores 72nd nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cascade Locks ranks 8,832 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,324 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 185 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Cascade Locks and the insurance market
Because Cascade Locks 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
Cascade Locks's 59.1% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Cascade Locks's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Cascade Locks's 8,832-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Cascade Locks's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.