Glendale, OR
How exposed is Glendale to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Glendale lands at the 100th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 429 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Glendale at the 100th percentile, close to its 100th-percentile risk score.
Where Glendale's buildings actually sit
Most of Glendale's buildings (57.1%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Glendale compares
There's little gap between Glendale's 100th national percentile and its 99th percentile inside Oregon, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glendale ranks 108 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,678 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 4 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
Glendale's 100th-percentile score lands in Oregon, the only two states requiring a wildfire disclosure at sale. Oregon's own hazard map feeds directly into that disclosure requirement. The disclosure-law guide covers what it requires.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Glendale's 57.1% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 429 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Glendale. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Glendale, see the exposure-zones guide.