Saunders Lake, OR
Saunders Lake, OR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Saunders Lake sits at the 31st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 755 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Saunders Lake at the 30th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Saunders Lake's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Saunders Lake's 755 counted buildings, 57.2% carry Direct exposure and only 0.1% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Saunders Lake compares
Saunders Lake's risk sits at a similar level relative to Oregon (28th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (31st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Saunders Lake ranks 21,784 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,067 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 301 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Saunders Lake and the insurance market
Because Saunders Lake 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Saunders Lake (57.2%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Saunders Lake's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Saunders Lake's 21,784-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Saunders Lake's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.