Seaside, OR
Seaside, OR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Seaside at the 26th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 4,125 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 Seaside at the 25th percentile, close to its 26th-percentile risk score.
Where Seaside's buildings actually sit
4,125 buildings are counted in Seaside, and 92.1% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 8% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Seaside ranks
There's little gap between Seaside's 26th national percentile and its 22nd percentile inside Oregon, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Seaside ranks 23,458 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,122 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 328 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Seaside and the insurance market
Seaside's 26th-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
Seaside's 92.1% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Seaside's 23,458-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Seaside, see the exposure-zones guide.