Prospect, OR
Prospect wildfire risk explained
Prospect sits at the 99th 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 414 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Prospect at the 99th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Prospect's 414 counted buildings, 98.3% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Prospect against the rest of the country
Prospect scores 99th nationally and 95th within Oregon — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Prospect ranks 455 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,951 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 25 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Prospect and the insurance market
Because Prospect 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.
Hardening a home in Prospect
Because Direct exposure dominates in Prospect (98.3%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Prospect's 99th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Prospect, see the exposure-zones guide.