Dallas, OR
How exposed is Dallas to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Dallas lands at the 39th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 6,692 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Dallas at the 40th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
81.1% of Dallas's 6,692 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 11.5% Direct and 7.4% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone. At 6,692 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Dallas ranks
There's little gap between Dallas's 39th national percentile and its 36th percentile inside Oregon, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dallas ranks 19,203 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,587 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 269 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Dallas and the insurance market
Because Dallas is in Oregon, a wildfire-hazard disclosure is legally required before a sale closes here — unusual nationally, since only these two states mandate it. Full detail in the disclosure-law guide.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Dallas's 81.1% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Dallas's 19,203-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Dallas, see the exposure-zones guide.