Summerville, OR
How exposed is Summerville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Summerville lands at the 73rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 117 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Summerville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 75th percentile nationally.
Summerville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 55.6% of Summerville's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 38.5% Indirect share and far above its 6% Minimal share — a profile where 65 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Summerville against the rest of the country
Inside Oregon, Summerville sits at just the 57th percentile even though it scores 73rd nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Summerville ranks 8,421 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,327 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 182 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Summerville and the insurance market
Summerville 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 73rd national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Summerville's 55.6% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Summerville's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 117 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Summerville. The exposure-zones guide covers what Summerville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.