Cayuse, OR
How exposed is Cayuse to wildfire?
Cayuse sits at the 93rd 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 47 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 Cayuse at the 95th percentile, close to its 93rd-percentile risk score.
Where Cayuse's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Cayuse: 97.9% of its 47 buildings, versus 2.1% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Cayuse ranks
There's little gap between Cayuse'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, Cayuse ranks 2,278 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,008 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 91 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Cayuse 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 93rd national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Cayuse
With 97.9% of Cayuse in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Cayuse's 2,278-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Cayuse, see the exposure-zones guide.