Warm Springs, OR
Warm Springs wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Warm Springs lands at the 97th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 990 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Warm Springs at the 98th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Warm Springs's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 73.2% of Warm Springs's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 26.8% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 725 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Warm Springs against the rest of the country
Warm Springs scores 97th nationally and 90th within Oregon — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Warm Springs ranks 988 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,007 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 45 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Warm Springs and the insurance market
Because Warm Springs 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Warm Springs's 73.2% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 990 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Warm Springs. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Warm Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.