Milwaukie, OR
Milwaukie wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Milwaukie at the 29th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 8,296 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 Milwaukie at the 26th percentile, close to its 29th-percentile risk score.
Where Milwaukie's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 98.5% of Milwaukie's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 1.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 8,296 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Milwaukie compares
Milwaukie's risk sits at a similar level relative to Oregon (26th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (29th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Milwaukie ranks 22,324 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,011 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 310 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Milwaukie and the insurance market
Because Milwaukie 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 Milwaukie
Milwaukie's 98.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 8,296 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Milwaukie. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Milwaukie, see the exposure-zones guide.