Broomfield, CO
How exposed is Broomfield to wildfire?
Broomfield's 23,098 buildings earn a 78th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Broomfield at the 78th percentile, close to its 78th-percentile risk score.
Where Broomfield's buildings actually sit
Only 9% of Broomfield's 23,098 buildings carry Direct exposure and 2.9% carry Indirect; the remaining 88% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 23,098 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Broomfield against the rest of the country
Broomfield's 78th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 50th ranking inside Colorado does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 28 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Broomfield ranks 6,988 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 569 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 237 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Broomfield
Broomfield's 78th-percentile, 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.
Hardening a home in Broomfield
Even with 88% of Broomfield outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Broomfield's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 23,098 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Broomfield. The exposure-zones guide covers what Broomfield's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.