Santa Clara, OR
Santa Clara wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Santa Clara at the 19th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 5,048 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Santa Clara at the 23rd national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Santa Clara's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Santa Clara (61.8% of 5,048 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 5% sit in the Direct zone. At 5,048 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Santa Clara compares
There's little gap between Santa Clara's 19th national percentile and its 12th percentile inside Oregon, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Santa Clara ranks 25,415 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,405 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 370 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Santa Clara's 19th-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
Santa Clara's 61.8% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Santa Clara's 19th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Santa Clara, see the exposure-zones guide.