Heppner, OR
Heppner, OR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Heppner at the 91st national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 800 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Heppner at the 92nd percentile, close to its 91st-percentile risk score.
Where Heppner's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 78.8% of Heppner's 800 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 21.3% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Heppner against the rest of the country
Heppner's 91st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 76th ranking inside Oregon does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 15 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Heppner ranks 2,718 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,637 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 101 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Heppner
Heppner 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 91st national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Heppner's 78.8% 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.
Where Heppner's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 800 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Heppner. The exposure-zones guide covers what Heppner's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.