Wallowa, OR
Wallowa, OR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Wallowa lands at the 90th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 575 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Wallowa's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 93rd percentile nationally.
Wallowa's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Wallowa's buildings (81.9%) 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.
How Wallowa compares
Wallowa's 90th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 75th ranking inside Oregon does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 15 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wallowa ranks 3,130 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,175 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 107 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Wallowa and the insurance market
Because Wallowa 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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Wallowa (81.9% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wallowa's 3,130-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Wallowa, see the exposure-zones guide.