Coos Bay, OR
Coos Bay wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Coos Bay at the 29th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 7,527 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Coos Bay at the 28th percentile, close to its 29th-percentile risk score.
Where Coos Bay's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Coos Bay (81.7% of 7,527 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 6.2% sit in the Direct zone. At 7,527 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Coos Bay against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Coos Bay's 29th national percentile and its 27th percentile inside Oregon, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Coos Bay ranks 22,288 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,273 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 307 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
Coos Bay 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 29th national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 81.7% of Coos Bay's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Coos Bay's 29th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Coos Bay, see the exposure-zones guide.