Tigard, OR
Tigard wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Tigard at the 18th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 18,425 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Tigard at the 20th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Tigard's buildings actually sit
Most of Tigard's buildings (92.9% of 18,425) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 18,425 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Tigard compares
Tigard's risk sits at a similar level relative to Oregon (10th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (18th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tigard ranks 25,884 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 776 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 378 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Tigard and the insurance market
Because Tigard 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
Even with 92.9% of Tigard outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Tigard's 25,884-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Tigard, see the exposure-zones guide.