Bark Ranch, CO
Bark Ranch wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Bark Ranch at the 99th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 162 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Bark Ranch's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 98th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
162 buildings are counted in Bark Ranch, and 100% 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.
How Bark Ranch compares
Bark Ranch's risk sits at a similar level relative to Colorado (97th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (99th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bark Ranch ranks 311 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,320 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 15 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bark Ranch
Bark Ranch's 99th-percentile, very 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.
Hardening a home in Bark Ranch
Because Direct exposure dominates in Bark Ranch (100%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bark Ranch's 311-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Bark Ranch, see the exposure-zones guide.