Depoe Bay, OR
Depoe Bay, OR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Depoe Bay at the 39th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 946 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 Depoe Bay at the 39th percentile, close to its 39th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 80.6% of Depoe Bay's 946 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 19% Direct and 0.4% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Depoe Bay ranks
Depoe Bay's risk sits at a similar level relative to Oregon (35th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (39th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Depoe Bay ranks 19,329 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,335 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 272 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
Depoe Bay's 39th-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 Depoe Bay
Because 80.6% of Depoe 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.
Where Depoe Bay's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 946 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Depoe Bay. The exposure-zones guide covers what Depoe Bay's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.