Brigham City, UT
How exposed is Brigham City to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Brigham City lands at the 90th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 8,117 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Brigham City at the 87th national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 73.8% of Brigham City's 8,117 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 7.8% Direct and 18.4% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 8,117 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Brigham City compares
Brigham City ranks lower within Utah (55th percentile statewide) than its 90th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brigham City ranks 3,163 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,068 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 147 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Brigham City
Brigham City's very high rating (90th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Brigham City
Because 73.8% of Brigham City'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 Brigham City's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 8,117 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Brigham City. The exposure-zones guide covers what Brigham City's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.