Redmond, OR
Redmond wildfire risk explained
Redmond's 13,214 buildings earn a 82nd-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Redmond's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 83rd percentile nationally.
Where Redmond's buildings actually sit
Only 18.5% of Redmond's 13,214 buildings carry Direct exposure and 34.8% carry Indirect; the remaining 46.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 13,214 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Redmond ranks
Inside Oregon, Redmond sits at just the 63rd percentile even though it scores 82nd nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Redmond ranks 5,646 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,157 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 156 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Redmond
Redmond 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 82nd national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
With 46.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Redmond gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Redmond's 5,646-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Redmond, see the exposure-zones guide.