Gervais, OR
Gervais, OR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Gervais at the 9th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 713 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 Gervais at the 10th percentile, close to its 9th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 97.2% of Gervais's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 2.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Gervais ranks
Gervais's risk sits at a similar level relative to Oregon (2nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (9th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gervais ranks 28,756 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,533 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 413 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
Gervais 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 9th national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Gervais
With 97.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Gervais gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Gervais's 9th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Gervais, see the exposure-zones guide.