Mount Angel, OR
Mount Angel wildfire risk explained
Mount Angel sits at the 13th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,242 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Mount Angel's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 16th percentile nationally.
Where Mount Angel's buildings actually sit
Mount Angel rates 85.4% Minimal exposure against just 5.9% Direct and 8.8% Indirect — of 1,242 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Mount Angel against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Mount Angel's 13th national percentile and its 6th percentile inside Oregon, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mount Angel ranks 27,369 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,390 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 395 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mount Angel
Mount Angel 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 13th national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Mount Angel's 85.4% 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
Mount Angel's 13th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Mount Angel, see the exposure-zones guide.