Winchester Bay, OR
Winchester Bay, OR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Winchester Bay lands at the 44th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 377 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 Winchester Bay at the 41st percentile, close to its 44th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
73.5% of Winchester Bay's 377 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 26.3% Direct and 0.3% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Winchester Bay against the rest of the country
Winchester Bay's risk sits at a similar level relative to Oregon (40th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (44th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Winchester Bay ranks 17,531 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,728 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 252 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Winchester Bay
Because Winchester Bay 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
Because 73.5% of Winchester Bay'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.
Where Winchester Bay's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Winchester Bay's 17,531-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Winchester Bay's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.