McMinnville, OR
How exposed is McMinnville to wildfire?
McMinnville sits at the 22nd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 12,081 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks McMinnville at the 25th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
McMinnville's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of McMinnville's buildings (59.9%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 12,081 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where McMinnville ranks
There's little gap between McMinnville's 22nd national percentile and its 18th percentile inside Oregon, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, McMinnville ranks 24,467 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,290 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 345 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
McMinnville and the insurance market
McMinnville 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 22nd national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in McMinnville
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in McMinnville (59.9% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
McMinnville's 22nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond McMinnville, see the exposure-zones guide.