Pacific City, OR
Pacific City, OR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pacific City at the 43rd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,702 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pacific City at the 41st national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Pacific City's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Pacific City (62% of 1,702 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 17.2% sit in the Direct zone.
How Pacific City compares
There's little gap between Pacific City's 43rd national percentile and its 39th percentile inside Oregon, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pacific City ranks 18,101 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,415 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 258 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pacific City
Because Pacific City 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.
Hardening a home in Pacific City
Pacific City's 62% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Pacific City's 43rd-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 Pacific City, see the exposure-zones guide.