Cedar Mill, OR
How exposed is Cedar Mill to wildfire?
USFS scores Cedar Mill at the 34th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 5,497 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Cedar Mill at the 32nd national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Cedar Mill's buildings actually sit
85.3% of Cedar Mill's 5,497 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 6.7% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 5,497 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Cedar Mill compares
Cedar Mill's risk sits at a similar level relative to Oregon (33rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (34th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cedar Mill ranks 20,779 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,139 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 282 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
Cedar Mill's 34th-percentile score lands in Oregon, the only two states requiring a wildfire disclosure at sale. Oregon's own hazard map feeds directly into that disclosure requirement. The disclosure-law guide covers what it requires.
Hardening a home in Cedar Mill
Even with 85.3% of Cedar Mill outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Cedar Mill's 20,779-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Cedar Mill, see the exposure-zones guide.