Mill City, OR
Mill City wildfire risk explained
Mill City sits at the 81st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,016 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mill City at the 82nd percentile, close to its 81st-percentile risk score.
Where Mill City's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 65.7% of Mill City's 1,016 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 34.4% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Mill City ranks
Inside Oregon, Mill City sits at just the 62nd percentile even though it scores 81st nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mill City ranks 6,155 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,831 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 162 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Mill City and the insurance market
Mill City 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 81st national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Mill City
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Mill City (65.7% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Mill City's figures come from
Mill City's 81st-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 Mill City's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.