Forest Grove, OR
Forest Grove, OR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Forest Grove at the 16th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 8,243 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Forest Grove at the 17th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Forest Grove's building exposure, zone by zone
8,243 buildings are counted in Forest Grove, and 58% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 5.6% in Direct exposure or the 36.4% rated Minimal. At 8,243 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Forest Grove ranks
There's little gap between Forest Grove's 16th national percentile and its 9th percentile inside Oregon, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Forest Grove ranks 26,354 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,028 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 381 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Forest Grove
Forest Grove 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 16th national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 58% of Forest Grove'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 Forest Grove's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Forest Grove's 26,354-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Forest Grove's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.