Nehalem, OR
Nehalem, OR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Nehalem's 195 buildings earn a 25th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Nehalem at the 25th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Nehalem's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Nehalem (73.9% of 195 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 25.6% sit in the Direct zone.
How Nehalem compares
Nehalem scores 25th nationally and 21st 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, Nehalem ranks 23,522 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,041 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 331 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Nehalem and the insurance market
Because Nehalem 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Nehalem (73.9% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Nehalem's 25th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Nehalem, see the exposure-zones guide.