Prairie City, OR
How exposed is Prairie City to wildfire?
Prairie City sits at the 94th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 729 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Prairie City at the 96th percentile, close to its 94th-percentile risk score.
Prairie City's building exposure, zone by zone
729 buildings are counted in Prairie City, and 55.7% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 44.3% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Prairie City ranks
There's little gap between Prairie City's 94th national percentile and its 82nd percentile inside Oregon, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Prairie City ranks 1,772 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,355 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 75 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Prairie City and the insurance market
Prairie City's 94th-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
Prairie City's 55.7% 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
Prairie City's 94th-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 Prairie City, see the exposure-zones guide.