Winston, OR
Winston, OR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Winston's 2,482 buildings earn a 82nd-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Winston at the 79th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Winston's building exposure, zone by zone
2,482 buildings are counted in Winston, and 84.9% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 15.1% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Winston compares
Inside Oregon, Winston sits at just the 63rd percentile even though it scores 82nd 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, Winston ranks 5,841 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,332 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 157 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Winston
Winston 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 82nd national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Winston's 84.9% 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 Winston's 5,841-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Winston, see the exposure-zones guide.