Manzanita, OR
Manzanita wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Manzanita lands at the 32nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,308 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 Manzanita at the 29th percentile, close to its 32nd-percentile risk score.
Where Manzanita's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 85.6% of Manzanita's 1,308 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 7.1% Direct and 7.3% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Manzanita against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Manzanita's 32nd national percentile and its 29th percentile inside Oregon, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Manzanita ranks 21,566 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,036 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 298 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Manzanita
Manzanita's 32nd-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 Manzanita
Manzanita's 85.6% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Manzanita's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Manzanita's 21,566-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Manzanita's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.