Lostine, Oregon.
Typical home $471,207 (+4.0% in a year). La Grande, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,395 (+129%) since Feb 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,212 +4%
- $452,996$471,207 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $92,624 +24%
- $378,583$471,207 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Lostine$2,473
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Lostine, OR rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lostine, Wallowa County, Oregon
Lostine is a city of 241 people in Wallowa County. Unemployment in Wallowa County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Wallowa County work in schools and health care, then farming.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Lostine is a very small city in Wallowa County, in the far northeast corner of Oregon. Homes here are valued well above what the county's modest household incomes would suggest, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with December the coldest month, while July brings hot afternoons and the year stays fairly dry.
Work. Across Wallowa County, people work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by farming, forestry and mining. Professional and business services and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employ many residents. The largest workplaces across the county include the Wallowa County Health Care District, Winding Waters Medical Clinic and Safeway. Unemployment across the county has eased slightly over the past year, and the number of jobs has stayed about the same.
Things to do. The Wallowa River is the best known of the nearby waters, and Wallowa Lake and Wallowa–Whitman National Forest are also a longer drive away. Wallowa Lake State Park, a protected area, lies a similar distance off. Lostine itself shares its name with the Lostine River, which runs close to town.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
What people in Wallowa County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wallowa County had 2,855 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 36° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 47°. About 48 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wallowa weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wallowa County
- Wallowa County Health Care DistrictCritical access hospital146FTE
- Winding Waters Medical ClinicCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient89
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores67
- Enterprise SD 21School district56FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture52
- Joseph SD 6School district38FTE
- Wallowa SD 12School district33FTE
- Heartwood BiomassFirewood and fuel wood containing fuel binder manufacturing25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 201 people in all across the county; Lostine has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- WildfireRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lostine’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Wallowa County and the La Grande, OR metro.
Lostine home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lostine$471,207
- Oregon$492,753
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Zip codes with a Lostine address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lostine — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.