New Pine Creek, OR
How exposed is New Pine Creek to wildfire?
New Pine Creek sits at the 94th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 137 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts New Pine Creek at the 92nd percentile, close to its 94th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in New Pine Creek: 82.5% of its 137 buildings, versus 17.5% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where New Pine Creek ranks
New Pine Creek scores 94th nationally and 81st 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, New Pine Creek ranks 1,963 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,414 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 82 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
New Pine Creek and the insurance market
New Pine Creek sits in Oregon, one of two states that legally require a wildfire-risk disclosure at sale. Sellers here disclose wildfire-hazard status before closing, the same number this page reports at the 94th national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 82.5% of New Pine Creek 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind New Pine Creek's 1,963-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond New Pine Creek, see the exposure-zones guide.