Myrtle Point, OR
Myrtle Point wildfire risk explained
Myrtle Point's 1,458 buildings earn a 60th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Myrtle Point at the 58th percentile, close to its 60th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Myrtle Point's buildings (86.9%) 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.
Myrtle Point against the rest of the country
Myrtle Point's risk sits at a similar level relative to Oregon (49th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (60th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Myrtle Point ranks 12,708 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,361 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 214 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Myrtle Point and the insurance market
Because Myrtle Point 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 Myrtle Point
Because 86.9% of Myrtle Point'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,458 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Myrtle Point. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Myrtle Point, see the exposure-zones guide.