WildfireRiskFinder

Fairview (Tillamook), OR

How exposed is Fairview (Tillamook) to wildfire?

Moderate
29thpercentile nationally

USFS scores Fairview (Tillamook) at the 29th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 241 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 Fairview (Tillamook) at the 32nd percentile, close to its 29th-percentile risk score.

Where Fairview (Tillamook)'s buildings actually sit

241Total buildings
49.8%Direct exposure
50.2%Indirect exposure
0%Minimal exposure

USFS puts 50.2% of Fairview (Tillamook)'s 241 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 49.8% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.

Fairview (Tillamook) against the rest of the country

There's little gap between Fairview (Tillamook)'s 29th national percentile and its 27th percentile inside Oregon, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fairview (Tillamook) ranks 22,289 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,441 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 308 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

Because Fairview (Tillamook) 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

With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Fairview (Tillamook) (50.2% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.

More on how this number was built

Every one of the two percentiles behind Fairview (Tillamook)'s 22,289-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Fairview (Tillamook), see the exposure-zones guide.