Sheridan, OR
Sheridan, OR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Sheridan at the 36th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,893 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Sheridan's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 38th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
1,893 buildings are counted in Sheridan, and 92.5% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 7.5% in Direct exposure or the 0.1% rated Minimal.
How Sheridan compares
There's little gap between Sheridan's 36th national percentile and its 34th percentile inside Oregon, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sheridan ranks 20,115 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,786 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 277 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Sheridan and the insurance market
Because Sheridan 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
Because 92.5% of Sheridan'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.
Where Sheridan's figures come from
Sheridan's 36th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Sheridan's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.