Brush, CO
Brush, CO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Brush sits at the 44th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 2,381 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Brush at the 43rd national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Brush's building exposure, zone by zone
Brush rates 62.3% Minimal exposure against just 5.4% Direct and 32.3% Indirect — of 2,381 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Brush against the rest of the country
Inside Colorado, Brush sits at just the 12th percentile even though it scores 44th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brush ranks 17,575 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,546 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 419 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Brush and the insurance market
Brush's elevated wildfire rating (44th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 62.3% of Brush 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.
More on how this number was built
Brush's 44th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Brush, see the exposure-zones guide.