Helix, OR
Helix wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Helix at the 77th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 128 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Helix at the 77th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Helix's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Helix (85.9% of 128 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 14.1% sit in the Direct zone.
How Helix compares
Inside Oregon, Helix sits at just the 60th percentile even though it scores 77th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Helix ranks 7,256 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,817 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 170 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Helix
Helix's 77th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Helix's 85.9% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Helix's 77th-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 Helix, see the exposure-zones guide.