Aristocrat Ranchettes, CO
Aristocrat Ranchettes, CO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Aristocrat Ranchettes at the 72nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,189 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Aristocrat Ranchettes at the 73rd percentile, close to its 72nd-percentile risk score.
Aristocrat Ranchettes's building exposure, zone by zone
1,189 buildings are counted in Aristocrat Ranchettes, and 82% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Aristocrat Ranchettes against the rest of the country
Aristocrat Ranchettes ranks lower within Colorado (41st percentile statewide) than its 72nd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Aristocrat Ranchettes ranks 8,721 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,710 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 281 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Aristocrat Ranchettes and the insurance market
Aristocrat Ranchettes's 72nd-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
With 82% of Aristocrat Ranchettes in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Aristocrat Ranchettes's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,189 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Aristocrat Ranchettes. The exposure-zones guide covers what Aristocrat Ranchettes's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.