Gresham, OR
How exposed is Gresham to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Gresham lands at the 37th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 30,572 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 Gresham at the 39th percentile, close to its 37th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Gresham's buildings (62.9% of 30,572) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 30,572 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Gresham compares
There's little gap between Gresham's 37th national percentile and its 35th percentile inside Oregon, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gresham ranks 19,834 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 372 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 275 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Gresham
Gresham's 37th-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
Even with 62.9% of Gresham outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Gresham's 37th-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 Gresham, see the exposure-zones guide.