Veneta, OR
How exposed is Veneta to wildfire?
USFS scores Veneta at the 38th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 2,187 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 Veneta at the 40th percentile, close to its 38th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Veneta (75.9% of 2,187 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 17.2% sit in the Direct zone.
Veneta against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Veneta's 38th national percentile and its 35th percentile inside Oregon, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Veneta ranks 19,454 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,971 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 273 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Veneta and the insurance market
Veneta 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 38th national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 75.9% of Veneta's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Veneta's 19,454-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Veneta, see the exposure-zones guide.