Alamosa East, CO
Alamosa East wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Alamosa East at the 44th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 973 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Alamosa East at the 40th national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Alamosa East's buildings actually sit
973 buildings are counted in Alamosa East, and 67.7% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 32.3% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Alamosa East compares
Alamosa East's 44th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 11th ranking inside Colorado does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 33 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Alamosa East ranks 17,671 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,116 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 420 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Alamosa East
Alamosa East's elevated rating (44th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Alamosa East's 67.7% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Alamosa East's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Alamosa East's 17,671-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Alamosa East's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.