Wasco, OR
Wasco, OR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Wasco lands at the 93rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 332 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Wasco at the 94th percentile, close to its 93rd-percentile risk score.
Wasco's building exposure, zone by zone
75.9% of Wasco's 332 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 24.1% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Wasco ranks
There's little gap between Wasco's 93rd national percentile and its 80th percentile inside Oregon, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wasco ranks 2,114 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,770 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 86 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wasco
Wasco's 93rd-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
Wasco's 75.9% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wasco's 2,114-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Wasco, see the exposure-zones guide.