Yamhill, OR
How exposed is Yamhill to wildfire?
Yamhill's 598 buildings earn a 16th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Yamhill's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 19th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
88.8% of Yamhill's 598 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 10.9% Direct and 0.3% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Yamhill ranks
There's little gap between Yamhill's 16th national percentile and its 9th percentile inside Oregon, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Yamhill ranks 26,583 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,868 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 384 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Yamhill and the insurance market
Because Yamhill 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 88.8% of Yamhill'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 598 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Yamhill. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Yamhill, see the exposure-zones guide.