Brick Center, CO
Brick Center wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Brick Center at the 87th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 132 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Brick Center at the 87th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Brick Center's buildings actually sit
132 buildings are counted in Brick Center, and 100% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Brick Center ranks
Brick Center's 87th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 68th ranking inside Colorado does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 18 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brick Center ranks 4,186 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,610 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 151 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 87th percentile nationally, Brick Center 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.
Hardening a home in Brick Center
Because Direct exposure dominates in Brick Center (100%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Brick Center's 87th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Brick Center, see the exposure-zones guide.