Pine Grove, OR
Pine Grove, OR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Pine Grove at the 99th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 159 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Pine Grove's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 100th percentile nationally.
Pine Grove's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Pine Grove: 100% of its 159 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Pine Grove ranks
Pine Grove's risk sits at a similar level relative to Oregon (97th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (99th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pine Grove ranks 294 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,496 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 12 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Pine Grove and the insurance market
Because Pine Grove 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 100% of Pine Grove 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 Pine Grove's 294-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pine Grove, see the exposure-zones guide.