Lowell, OR
Lowell wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Lowell at the 64th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 609 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Lowell at the 66th percentile, close to its 64th-percentile risk score.
Lowell's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 65.4% of Lowell's 609 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 33.3% Direct and 1.3% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Lowell ranks
Lowell scores 64th nationally and 52nd 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, Lowell ranks 11,388 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,707 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 203 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lowell
Lowell 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 64th national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 65.4% of Lowell'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lowell's 11,388-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Lowell, see the exposure-zones guide.