Mount Hood, OR
How exposed is Mount Hood to wildfire?
USFS scores Mount Hood at the 100th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 240 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mount Hood at the 100th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Mount Hood's building exposure, zone by zone
99.2% of Mount Hood's 240 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 238 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0.8% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Mount Hood against the rest of the country
Mount Hood scores 100th nationally and 100th 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, Mount Hood ranks 75 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,479 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 1 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Mount Hood and the insurance market
Mount Hood's 100th-percentile score lands in Oregon, the only two states requiring a wildfire disclosure at sale. Oregon's own hazard map feeds directly into that disclosure requirement. The disclosure-law guide covers what it requires.
What would actually reduce this score
Mount Hood's 99.2% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 240 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mount Hood. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Mount Hood, see the exposure-zones guide.