Hermiston, OR
Hermiston, OR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Hermiston lands at the 69th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 6,213 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hermiston at the 69th percentile, close to its 69th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 6% of Hermiston's 6,213 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 94% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 6,213 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Hermiston compares
Hermiston scores 69th nationally and 55th 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, Hermiston ranks 9,748 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,794 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 191 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Hermiston and the insurance market
Because Hermiston 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Hermiston's 94% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hermiston's 9,748-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Hermiston, see the exposure-zones guide.