Dexter, OR
Dexter wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Dexter at the 66th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 572 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Dexter at the 70th percentile, close to its 66th-percentile risk score.
Where Dexter's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 71.9% of Dexter's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 28.2% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 411 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Dexter ranks
Dexter's risk sits at a similar level relative to Oregon (53rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (66th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dexter ranks 10,692 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,224 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 199 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Dexter and the insurance market
Because Dexter 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
Dexter's 71.9% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Dexter's 10,692-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Dexter, see the exposure-zones guide.