Dunes City, OR
Dunes City wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Dunes City at the 34th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 965 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Dunes City's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 33rd percentile nationally.
Where Dunes City's buildings actually sit
80.9% of Dunes City's 965 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 781 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 15.2% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 3.8% are Minimal.
How Dunes City compares
Dunes City's risk sits at a similar level relative to Oregon (33rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (34th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dunes City ranks 20,715 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,190 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 280 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
Dunes City 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 34th national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 80.9% of Dunes City in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Dunes City's 34th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Dunes City, see the exposure-zones guide.