Brook Forest, CO
Brook Forest, CO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Brook Forest lands at the 99th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 425 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Brook Forest at the 98th percentile, close to its 99th-percentile risk score.
Where Brook Forest's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 100% of Brook Forest's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 425 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Brook Forest ranks
Brook Forest's risk sits at a similar level relative to Colorado (97th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (99th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brook Forest ranks 312 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,741 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 16 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Brook Forest and the insurance market
Brook Forest's 99th-percentile, very 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Brook Forest's 100% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brook Forest's 312-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Brook Forest, see the exposure-zones guide.