Calhan, CO
Calhan, CO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Calhan at the 88th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 551 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Calhan's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 88th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 70.8% of Calhan's 551 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 29.2% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Calhan ranks
Inside Colorado, Calhan sits at just the 70th percentile even though it scores 88th 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, Calhan ranks 3,772 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,554 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 141 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Calhan and the insurance market
Calhan's very high rating (88th 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.
Hardening a home in Calhan
Because 70.8% of Calhan's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Calhan's 3,772-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Calhan, see the exposure-zones guide.