White City, OR
How exposed is White City to wildfire?
White City's 3,030 buildings earn a 84th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts White City at the 89th percentile, close to its 84th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
90.4% of White City's 3,030 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 4% Direct and 5.6% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
White City against the rest of the country
Inside Oregon, White City sits at just the 66th percentile even though it scores 84th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, White City ranks 5,087 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,384 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 145 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
White City and the insurance market
White City 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 84th national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in White City (90.4% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where White City's figures come from
White City's 84th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what White City's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.