Newport, OR
Newport wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Newport at the 39th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 4,905 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Newport at the 38th national percentile — 1 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
4,905 buildings are counted in Newport, and 82.6% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 6.5% in Direct exposure or the 10.9% rated Minimal.
Where Newport ranks
Newport scores 39th nationally and 36th 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, Newport ranks 19,296 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,486 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 271 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Newport and the insurance market
Newport 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 39th national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 82.6% of Newport'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.
Where Newport's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Newport's 19,296-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Newport's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.