Melrose, OR
Melrose wildfire risk explained
Melrose's 673 buildings earn a 63rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Melrose's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 61st percentile nationally.
Melrose's building exposure, zone by zone
99% of Melrose's 673 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 666 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 1% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Melrose compares
Melrose scores 63rd nationally and 51st 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, Melrose ranks 11,548 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,944 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 206 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Melrose 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 63rd national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Melrose (99%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Melrose's 11,548-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Melrose, see the exposure-zones guide.