Prineville, OR
Prineville wildfire risk explained
Prineville's 5,195 buildings earn a 84th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Prineville at the 84th percentile, close to its 84th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
5,195 buildings are counted in Prineville, and 89.4% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 10.4% in Direct exposure or the 0.2% rated Minimal. At 5,195 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Prineville compares
Prineville's 84th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 65th ranking inside Oregon does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 19 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Prineville ranks 5,175 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,317 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 149 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Prineville
Prineville 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 84th national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Prineville
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Prineville (89.4% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Prineville's 5,175-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Prineville, see the exposure-zones guide.