Portland, OR
Portland wildfire risk explained
Portland's 218,760 buildings earn a 30th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Portland at the 28th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 2.7% of Portland's 218,760 buildings carry Direct exposure and 4% carry Indirect; the remaining 93.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 218,760 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Portland ranks
Portland's risk sits at a similar level relative to Oregon (28th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (30th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Portland ranks 22,103 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 305 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Portland and the insurance market
Portland sits in Oregon, one of two states that legally require a wildfire-risk disclosure at sale. Sellers here disclose wildfire-hazard status before closing, the same number this page reports at the 30th national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Portland's 93.3% 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.
Where Portland's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Portland's 22,103-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Portland's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.