Bluffdale, UT
Bluffdale, UT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Bluffdale's 5,670 buildings earn a 91st-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, Bluffdale's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 89th percentile nationally.
Where Bluffdale's buildings actually sit
5,670 buildings are counted in Bluffdale, and 49% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 24.7% in Direct exposure or the 26.3% rated Minimal. At 5,670 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Bluffdale ranks
Inside Utah, Bluffdale sits at just the 62nd percentile even though it scores 91st 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, Bluffdale ranks 2,755 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,051 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 125 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 91st percentile nationally, Bluffdale carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 49% of Bluffdale's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Bluffdale's 91st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Bluffdale, see the exposure-zones guide.