Cave Junction, OR
Cave Junction wildfire risk explained
Cave Junction sits at the 99th 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 1,081 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Cave Junction's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 99th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
1,081 buildings are counted in Cave Junction, and 57.2% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 42.8% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Cave Junction ranks
Cave Junction's risk sits at a similar level relative to Oregon (97th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (99th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cave Junction ranks 328 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,403 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 13 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Cave Junction and the insurance market
Cave Junction sits in Oregon, one of two states that legally require a wildfire-risk disclosure at sale. Sellers here disclose wildfire-hazard status before closing, the same number this page reports at the 99th national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Cave Junction (57.2% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Cave Junction's 328-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Cave Junction, see the exposure-zones guide.