Cañon City, CO
How exposed is Cañon City to wildfire?
Cañon City's 8,504 buildings earn a 91st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Cañon City at the 88th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Cañon City's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Cañon City (69.7% of 8,504 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 9.2% sit in the Direct zone. At 8,504 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Cañon City against the rest of the country
Cañon City scores 91st nationally and 77th within Colorado — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cañon City ranks 2,766 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,955 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 110 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cañon City
Cañon City's very high rating (91st 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Cañon City (69.7% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Cañon City's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 8,504 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Cañon City. The exposure-zones guide covers what Cañon City's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.