Central Point, OR
Central Point wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Central Point at the 88th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 6,994 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Central Point at the 91st national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Central Point's buildings actually sit
Only 3.4% of Central Point's 6,994 buildings carry Direct exposure and 27.8% carry Indirect; the remaining 68.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 6,994 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Central Point compares
Central Point ranks lower within Oregon (70th percentile statewide) than its 88th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Central Point ranks 3,855 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,469 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 125 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
Central Point's 88th-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 Central Point
With 68.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Central Point gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Central Point's 3,855-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Central Point, see the exposure-zones guide.