Salem, OR
Salem, OR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Salem at the 24th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 56,888 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Salem at the 26th percentile, close to its 24th-percentile risk score.
Where Salem's buildings actually sit
Most of Salem's buildings (55.6% of 56,888) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 56,888 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Salem against the rest of the country
Salem's risk sits at a similar level relative to Oregon (20th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (24th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Salem ranks 23,930 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 144 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 337 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Salem
Because Salem 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 55.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Salem 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 56,888 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Salem. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Salem, see the exposure-zones guide.