Oregon, WI
Oregon wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Oregon lands at the 30th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 3,602 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Oregon at the 31st national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Oregon's buildings (84% of 3,602) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Oregon against the rest of the country
Within Wisconsin, Oregon ranks higher (65th percentile) than it does nationally (30th) — 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 21,984 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,648 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 284 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Oregon
At the 30th national percentile, Oregon rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Oregon's 84% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Oregon's 21,984-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Oregon, see the exposure-zones guide.