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Woodburn, OR

Woodburn, OR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers

Low
14thpercentile nationally

USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Woodburn at the 14th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 7,605 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)

USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Woodburn at the 17th percentile, close to its 14th-percentile risk score.

What "at risk" means for the buildings here

7,605Total buildings
3.7%Direct exposure
11.9%Indirect exposure
84.5%Minimal exposure

Most of Woodburn's buildings (84.5% of 7,605) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 7,605 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.

Where Woodburn ranks

Woodburn's risk sits at a similar level relative to Oregon (7th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (14th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Woodburn ranks 27,211 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,248 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 391 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.

Shopping for coverage in Woodburn

Woodburn's 14th-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.

Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it

Even with 84.5% of Woodburn outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.

More on how this number was built

Woodburn's 14th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Woodburn, see the exposure-zones guide.