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Oregon wildfire risk explained
Oregon's 2,062 buildings earn a 19th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Oregon at the 19th percentile, close to its 19th-percentile risk score.
Oregon's building exposure, zone by zone
80.3% of Oregon's 2,062 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 6.6% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Oregon compares
Within Illinois, Oregon ranks higher (60th percentile) than it does nationally (19th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Oregon ranks 25,551 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,307 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 582 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Oregon and the insurance market
Oregon's low wildfire rating (19th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 80.3% of Oregon outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Oregon's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Oregon's 25,551-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Oregon's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.