Bountiful, UT
Bountiful wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Bountiful lands at the 97th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 14,328 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bountiful at the 93rd national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Bountiful's buildings actually sit
48.4% of Bountiful's 14,328 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 8.4% Direct and 43.2% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone. At 14,328 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Bountiful ranks
There's little gap between Bountiful's 97th national percentile and its 87th percentile inside Utah, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bountiful ranks 1,114 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,045 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 43 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 97th percentile nationally, Bountiful 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 48.4% of Bountiful'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.
Where Bountiful's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bountiful's 1,114-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Bountiful's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.