Halfway, OR
Halfway wildfire risk explained
Halfway's 401 buildings earn a 95th-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 Halfway at the 97th percentile, close to its 95th-percentile risk score.
Where Halfway's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 67.6% of Halfway's 401 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 32.4% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Halfway ranks
Halfway's risk sits at a similar level relative to Oregon (84th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (95th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Halfway ranks 1,587 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,195 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 68 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
Halfway 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 95th national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Halfway
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Halfway (67.6% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Halfway's 1,587-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Halfway, see the exposure-zones guide.