Aetna Estates, CO
Aetna Estates wildfire risk explained
Aetna Estates's 496 buildings earn a 67th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Aetna Estates at the 66th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Aetna Estates's building exposure, zone by zone
Aetna Estates rates 100% Minimal exposure against just 0% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 496 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Aetna Estates ranks
Aetna Estates ranks lower within Colorado (34th percentile statewide) than its 67th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Aetna Estates ranks 10,361 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,420 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 312 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Aetna Estates
Aetna Estates's high rating (67th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Aetna Estates
Even with 100% of Aetna Estates 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
Aetna Estates's 67th-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 Aetna Estates, see the exposure-zones guide.