Brookside, CO
How exposed is Brookside to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Brookside lands at the 87th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 207 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 Brookside at the 86th percentile, close to its 87th-percentile risk score.
Where Brookside's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 74.4% of Brookside's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 25.6% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 154 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Brookside ranks
Brookside's 87th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 69th 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, Brookside ranks 3,962 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,586 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 146 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Brookside
At the 87th percentile nationally, Brookside 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
With 74.4% of Brookside in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Brookside'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 Brookside, see the exposure-zones guide.