Port Orford, OR
How exposed is Port Orford to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Port Orford lands at the 74th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 897 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Port Orford at the 63rd percentile, lower than its 74th-percentile risk score, because so much is actually built here.
Port Orford's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 73.7% of Port Orford's 897 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 23.4% Direct and 2.9% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Port Orford ranks
Port Orford's 74th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 57th ranking inside Oregon does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 17 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Port Orford ranks 8,363 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,753 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 181 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Port Orford and the insurance market
Port Orford's 74th-percentile score lands in Oregon, the only two states requiring a wildfire disclosure at sale. Oregon's own hazard map feeds directly into that disclosure requirement. The disclosure-law guide covers what it requires.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Port Orford (73.7% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 897 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Port Orford. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Port Orford, see the exposure-zones guide.