Myrtle Creek, OR
How exposed is Myrtle Creek to wildfire?
Myrtle Creek's 1,711 buildings earn a 97th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Myrtle Creek at the 95th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Myrtle Creek's buildings (72.6%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Myrtle Creek compares
Myrtle Creek scores 97th nationally and 89th 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, Myrtle Creek ranks 1,020 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,381 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 50 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Myrtle Creek and the insurance market
Myrtle Creek's 97th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 72.6% of Myrtle Creek's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Myrtle Creek's 1,020-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Myrtle Creek, see the exposure-zones guide.