What actually shows up in an Oregon report

An Oregon home inspection is visual and not technically exhaustive, and it excludes underground items by rule. Four of the most expensive problems in Oregon housing sit outside it, and the only existing coverage is written by the companies selling the remediation.

Flagship Oregon's 2025 wildfire rule change: R327 and defensible space Southern Oregon · Central Oregon · Eastern Oregon · wildland-urban interface statewide Decommissioned heating oil tanks Portland metro · older Willamette Valley stock The archetypal Oregon transaction issue. Buyer finds a tank on a scan, deal stalls, nobody has a neutral explanation of decommissioning documentation and what a no-further-action letter actually covers. Sewer scopes and clay laterals Portland · Eugene · older urban cores Root intrusion, offset joints and bellies in pre-1970 clay laterals. Repair cost is high enough to kill deals, and lateral ownership/responsibility varies by city. The Oregon seller property disclosure form statewide Overlaps /oregon/seller-disclosure. Build the statewide page as canonical and keep the issue angle (what a buyer does when the form is wrong) distinct or fold it in. ORS 105.464 was amended in 2025. Radon testing in Oregon varies by ZIP, see OHA data OHA publishes results by ZIP. Joining that data to the city pages makes radon a genuine per-city fact rather than boilerplate. Seismic retrofit and house bolting Portland metro · Willamette Valley · coast (Cascadia) Whether a house is bolted to its foundation is a routine inspection observation with no neutral Oregon explainer. Some jurisdictions have prescriptive retrofit permit paths. Moss-driven roof failure Western Oregon: Portland, Eugene, Salem, coast Wet-side Oregon's most common roof finding. Shortens composition shingle life materially and is routinely written up. Prime getroofreport.com link target, gated to last and editorial and inline only. Snow load on Central and Eastern Oregon roofs Bend · Redmond · Sisters · La Pine · Klamath Falls · east of the Cascades Ground snow load design values are jurisdiction-specific and published by the local building department, a concrete and citable per-city number that nobody has tabulated. Prime getroofreport.com link target.