Gladstone, OR
How exposed is Gladstone to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Gladstone at the 23rd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 4,294 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Gladstone's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 24th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
49.7% of Gladstone's 4,294 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 1.5% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Gladstone against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Gladstone's 23rd national percentile and its 19th percentile inside Oregon, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gladstone ranks 24,155 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,981 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 339 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Gladstone
Because Gladstone 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 49.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Gladstone 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
Gladstone's 23rd-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 Gladstone, see the exposure-zones guide.