Grants Pass, OR
Grants Pass, OR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Grants Pass sits at the 98th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 16,221 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Grants Pass's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 97th percentile nationally.
Grants Pass's building exposure, zone by zone
73.8% of Grants Pass's 16,221 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 8% Direct and 18.2% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone. At 16,221 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Grants Pass ranks
There's little gap between Grants Pass's 98th national percentile and its 91st percentile inside Oregon, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Grants Pass ranks 734 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 896 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 37 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Grants Pass
Grants Pass 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 98th national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Grants Pass (73.8% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Grants Pass's 98th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Grants Pass, see the exposure-zones guide.