Hayesville, OR
How exposed is Hayesville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Hayesville lands at the 11th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 5,797 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hayesville at the 13th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Hayesville's buildings (99.4% of 5,797) 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 5,797 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Hayesville compares
Hayesville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Oregon (4th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (11th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hayesville ranks 27,936 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,982 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 404 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Hayesville and the insurance market
Hayesville 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 11th national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Hayesville's 99.4% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Hayesville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hayesville's 27,936-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Hayesville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.