Mount Hood Villages, OR
How exposed is Mount Hood Villages to wildfire?
USFS scores Mount Hood Villages at the 95th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 2,986 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 Villages at the 95th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Mount Hood Villages's building exposure, zone by zone
2,986 buildings are counted in Mount Hood Villages, and 93.4% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Mount Hood Villages ranks
There's little gap between Mount Hood Villages's 95th national percentile and its 84th 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 Hood Villages ranks 1,524 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,459 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 67 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mount Hood Villages
Mount Hood Villages's 95th-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.
Hardening a home in Mount Hood Villages
With 93.4% of Mount Hood Villages in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Mount Hood Villages's figures come from
Mount Hood Villages's 95th-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 Mount Hood Villages's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.