La Grande, OR
La Grande, OR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts La Grande at the 91st national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 5,743 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 La Grande at the 92nd percentile, close to its 91st-percentile risk score.
La Grande's building exposure, zone by zone
77.8% of La Grande's 5,743 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 6.8% Direct and 15.4% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone. At 5,743 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
La Grande against the rest of the country
La Grande'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, La Grande ranks 2,744 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,009 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 103 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
La Grande and the insurance market
La Grande's 91st-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
Because 77.8% of La Grande's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where La Grande's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind La Grande's 2,744-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what La Grande's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.