Vernonia, OR
Vernonia, OR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Vernonia at the 20th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 1,346 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 Vernonia at the 21st percentile, close to its 20th-percentile risk score.
Vernonia's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Vernonia's buildings (67%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Vernonia against the rest of the country
Vernonia's risk sits at a similar level relative to Oregon (13th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (20th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Vernonia ranks 25,131 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,853 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 364 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Vernonia's 20th-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
Because 67% of Vernonia'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
Vernonia's 20th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Vernonia, see the exposure-zones guide.