Why this exists

"Wildfire risk" searches mostly turn up either a paid property-lookup tool or a vague regional hazard map. WildfireRiskFinder instead reports what the US Forest Service already publishes for every community: a national risk percentile built from fire likelihood, intensity, and the buildings actually there, plus the exposure zone most of those buildings fall into.

What goes into the number

Every figure traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset (Risk to Potential Structures and burn-probability percentiles, both national and within-state, plus building-exposure shares by zone). Nothing here is re-normalized or estimated — the methodology guide documents exactly which USFS fields feed each page.

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The community pages on WildfireRiskFinder are written with AI tools working from USFS's published data, not reported by a named journalist. Each page's figures are cross-referenced against USFS's published tables before publication, including the 517 places USFS itself flags as having too little data to score — documented in the data-quality guide — which are left out rather than shown with a guessed number. The site is maintained by its publisher.

Who runs this

WildfireRiskFinder is an independently run site. It is not affiliated with the US Forest Service, any state insurance department, or any insurance carrier. Where a page includes a sponsored or affiliate link, that is disclosed on the page itself and in the privacy policy.

Corrections

If a community's numbers or a link look wrong, report it through the contact page — corrections are checked against USFS's source tables directly, not against another site's copy of them.