Lafayette, OR
How exposed is Lafayette to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Lafayette lands at the 21st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,568 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 Lafayette at the 24th percentile, close to its 21st-percentile risk score.
Where Lafayette's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 96.1% of Lafayette's 1,568 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 4% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Lafayette compares
There's little gap between Lafayette's 21st national percentile and its 17th percentile inside Oregon, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lafayette ranks 24,842 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,897 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 351 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lafayette
Lafayette's 21st-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.
Hardening a home in Lafayette
Because 96.1% of Lafayette'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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,568 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Lafayette. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Lafayette, see the exposure-zones guide.