River Road, OR
How exposed is River Road to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts River Road at the 12th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 3,820 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, River Road's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 15th percentile nationally.
Where River Road's buildings actually sit
Only 1.2% of River Road's 3,820 buildings carry Direct exposure and 6.9% carry Indirect; the remaining 91.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
River Road against the rest of the country
There's little gap between River Road's 12th national percentile and its 5th percentile inside Oregon, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, River Road ranks 27,650 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,409 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 401 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
River Road and the insurance market
River Road's 12th-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
Even with 91.9% of River Road outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,820 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for River Road. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond River Road, see the exposure-zones guide.