Hillsboro, OR
Hillsboro wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Hillsboro lands at the 9th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 30,690 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 Hillsboro at the 11th percentile, close to its 9th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 95.2% of Hillsboro's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 4.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 30,690 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Hillsboro compares
There's little gap between Hillsboro's 9th national percentile and its 2nd percentile inside Oregon, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hillsboro ranks 28,629 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 371 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 410 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Hillsboro's 9th-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
Even with 95.2% of Hillsboro outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Hillsboro's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hillsboro's 28,629-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Hillsboro's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.