Corvallis, OR
Corvallis wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Corvallis lands at the 28th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 17,294 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Corvallis at the 28th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Corvallis's buildings actually sit
Most of Corvallis's buildings (74.6%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 17,294 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Corvallis ranks
There's little gap between Corvallis's 28th national percentile and its 26th percentile inside Oregon, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Corvallis ranks 22,670 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 829 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 312 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Corvallis and the insurance market
Corvallis 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 28th national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 74.6% of Corvallis'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.
Where Corvallis's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 17,294 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Corvallis. The exposure-zones guide covers what Corvallis's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.