Blue Valley, CO
Blue Valley, CO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Blue Valley sits at the 97th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 117 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (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 Valley at the 96th percentile, close to its 97th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Blue Valley's 117 counted buildings, 100% 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.
How Blue Valley compares
Blue Valley scores 97th nationally and 89th within Colorado — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blue Valley ranks 878 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,289 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 52 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Blue Valley
Blue Valley's 97th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 100% of Blue Valley 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 Valley's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Blue Valley's 878-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Blue Valley's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.