Mehama, OR
Mehama, OR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Mehama at the 62nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 223 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 Mehama at the 64th percentile, close to its 62nd-percentile risk score.
Where Mehama's buildings actually sit
Of Mehama's 223 counted buildings, 64.6% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Mehama against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Mehama's 62nd national percentile and its 50th percentile inside Oregon, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mehama ranks 11,924 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,027 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 209 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mehama
Because Mehama is in Oregon, a wildfire-hazard disclosure is legally required before a sale closes here — unusual nationally, since only these two states mandate it. Full detail in the disclosure-law guide.
Hardening a home in Mehama
Mehama's 64.6% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Mehama's figures come from
Mehama's 62nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mehama's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.