Knappa, OR
How exposed is Knappa to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Knappa at the 27th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 619 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Knappa at the 27th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Knappa's buildings actually sit
Of Knappa's 619 counted buildings, 86.6% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Knappa ranks
Knappa's risk sits at a similar level relative to Oregon (24th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (27th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Knappa ranks 23,014 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,579 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 317 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Knappa
Knappa 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 27th national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Knappa (86.6%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Knappa's 23,014-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Knappa, see the exposure-zones guide.