Sisters, OR
How exposed is Sisters to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Sisters lands at the 84th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 1,819 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Sisters at the 85th percentile, close to its 84th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 62.9% of Sisters's 1,819 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 37.1% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Sisters compares
Sisters ranks lower within Oregon (65th percentile statewide) than its 84th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sisters ranks 5,147 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,009 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 148 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sisters
Sisters 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 84th national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Sisters
Sisters's 62.9% 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 Sisters's 5,147-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Sisters, see the exposure-zones guide.