Waterloo, OR
Waterloo wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Waterloo at the 39th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 141 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 Waterloo at the 43rd percentile, close to its 39th-percentile risk score.
Where Waterloo's buildings actually sit
Most of Waterloo's buildings (85.1%) 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.
Where Waterloo ranks
Waterloo scores 39th nationally and 36th 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, Waterloo ranks 19,267 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,263 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 270 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Waterloo
Waterloo 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 39th national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Waterloo
Because 85.1% of Waterloo'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 Waterloo's 19,267-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Waterloo, see the exposure-zones guide.