Tri-City, OR
How exposed is Tri-City to wildfire?
USFS scores Tri-City at the 97th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 2,285 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Tri-City at the 95th percentile, close to its 97th-percentile risk score.
Tri-City's building exposure, zone by zone
2,285 buildings are counted in Tri-City, and 70.7% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 29.3% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Tri-City compares
There's little gap between Tri-City's 97th national percentile and its 89th percentile inside Oregon, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tri-City ranks 1,021 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,736 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 51 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Tri-City and the insurance market
Tri-City's 97th-percentile score lands in Oregon, the only two states requiring a wildfire disclosure at sale. Oregon's own hazard map feeds directly into that disclosure requirement. The disclosure-law guide covers what it requires.
Hardening a home in Tri-City
Tri-City's 70.7% 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.
Where Tri-City's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Tri-City's 1,021-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Tri-City's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.