Castle Dale, UT
How exposed is Castle Dale to wildfire?
USFS scores Castle Dale at the 23rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 921 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Castle Dale at the 29th percentile, close to its 23rd-percentile risk score.
Where Castle Dale's buildings actually sit
62.7% of Castle Dale's 921 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 20.3% Direct and 17.1% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Castle Dale ranks
Castle Dale's 23rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 0th ranking inside Utah does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 22 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Castle Dale ranks 24,375 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,552 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 325 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Castle Dale
Castle Dale's moderate rating (23rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 62.7% of Castle Dale'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 921 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Castle Dale. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Castle Dale, see the exposure-zones guide.