Scotts Mills, OR
How exposed is Scotts Mills to wildfire?
USFS scores Scotts Mills at the 68th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 252 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Scotts Mills at the 70th percentile, close to its 68th-percentile risk score.
Scotts Mills's building exposure, zone by zone
51.6% of Scotts Mills's 252 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 48.4% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Scotts Mills against the rest of the country
Scotts Mills scores 68th nationally and 54th within Oregon — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Scotts Mills ranks 10,125 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,084 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 195 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Scotts Mills
Scotts Mills 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 68th national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 51.6% of Scotts Mills's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Scotts Mills's 10,125-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Scotts Mills, see the exposure-zones guide.