Boone, CO
Boone wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Boone at the 76th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 257 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Boone at the 75th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Boone's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Boone's buildings (73.9%) 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.
Where Boone ranks
Inside Colorado, Boone sits at just the 45th percentile even though it scores 76th 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, Boone ranks 7,681 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,909 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 258 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Boone
Boone's 76th-percentile, 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 Boone
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Boone (73.9% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 257 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Boone. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Boone, see the exposure-zones guide.