Umatilla, OR
Umatilla wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Umatilla lands at the 89th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 1,750 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Umatilla at the 90th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Umatilla's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 15.9% of Umatilla's 1,750 buildings carry Direct exposure and 41.4% carry Indirect; the remaining 42.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Umatilla against the rest of the country
Inside Oregon, Umatilla sits at just the 73rd percentile even though it scores 89th 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, Umatilla ranks 3,414 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,227 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 113 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Umatilla
Umatilla's 89th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 42.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Umatilla gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Umatilla's 89th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Umatilla, see the exposure-zones guide.