Happy Valley, OR
How exposed is Happy Valley to wildfire?
Happy Valley sits at the 33rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 8,010 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Happy Valley at the 34th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Happy Valley's buildings actually sit
Happy Valley rates 67.9% Minimal exposure against just 24.3% Direct and 7.8% Indirect — of 8,010 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 8,010 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Happy Valley compares
Happy Valley scores 33rd nationally and 31st within Oregon — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Happy Valley ranks 21,121 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,108 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 289 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Happy Valley
Because Happy Valley is in Oregon, a wildfire-hazard disclosure is legally required before a sale closes here — unusual nationally, since only these two states mandate it. Full detail in the disclosure-law guide.
What would actually reduce this score
With 67.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Happy Valley gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Happy Valley's figures come from
Happy Valley's 33rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Happy Valley's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.