Blue Sky, CO
How exposed is Blue Sky to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Blue Sky lands at the 45th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 21 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Blue Sky at the 45th percentile, close to its 45th-percentile risk score.
Where Blue Sky's buildings actually sit
Of Blue Sky's 21 counted buildings, 85.7% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first. This is a small settlement by building count — 21 total — so these shares describe a handful of structures, not a statistical average across thousands.
Blue Sky against the rest of the country
Inside Colorado, Blue Sky sits at just the 12th percentile even though it scores 45th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blue Sky ranks 17,480 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,450 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 417 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
At the 45th national percentile, Blue Sky rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 85.7% of Blue Sky 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 Blue Sky's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 21 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Blue Sky. Small places like Blue Sky (21 buildings) are exactly where USFS's underlying data gets sparsest — see the data-quality guide for the 517 places that didn't clear the bar.