Stayton, OR
Stayton wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Stayton at the 26th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 3,274 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Stayton at the 29th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Stayton's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 81.8% of Stayton's 3,274 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 4.8% Direct and 13.4% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Stayton against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Stayton'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, Stayton ranks 23,493 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,077 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 330 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Stayton and the insurance market
Stayton 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 26th national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Stayton (81.8% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,274 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Stayton. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Stayton, see the exposure-zones guide.