Battlement Mesa, CO
Battlement Mesa wildfire risk explained
Battlement Mesa's 2,153 buildings earn a 89th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Battlement Mesa's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 85th percentile nationally.
Battlement Mesa's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Battlement Mesa's buildings (66.6%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Battlement Mesa against the rest of the country
Battlement Mesa ranks lower within Colorado (73rd percentile statewide) than its 89th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Battlement Mesa ranks 3,334 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,059 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 127 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Battlement Mesa's very high rating (89th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Battlement Mesa (66.6% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Battlement Mesa's 3,334-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Battlement Mesa, see the exposure-zones guide.