Rowena, OR
Rowena wildfire risk explained
Rowena sits at the 98th 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 152 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Rowena at the 98th 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
Direct exposure dominates in Rowena: 73.7% of its 152 buildings, versus 26.3% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Rowena compares
There's little gap between Rowena's 98th national percentile and its 91st percentile inside Oregon, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rowena ranks 735 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,820 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 38 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rowena
Rowena 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 98th national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Rowena's 73.7% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Rowena's 735-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Rowena, see the exposure-zones guide.