Gopher Flats, OR
How exposed is Gopher Flats to wildfire?
Gopher Flats's 258 buildings earn a 88th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Gopher Flats at the 90th percentile, close to its 88th-percentile risk score.
Where Gopher Flats's buildings actually sit
258 buildings are counted in Gopher Flats, and 80.6% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Gopher Flats ranks
Inside Oregon, Gopher Flats sits at just the 71st percentile even though it scores 88th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gopher Flats ranks 3,819 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,899 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 123 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Gopher Flats and the insurance market
Gopher Flats 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 88th national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Gopher Flats
With 80.6% of Gopher Flats in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Gopher Flats's 88th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Gopher Flats, see the exposure-zones guide.