Castle Pines, CO
Castle Pines, CO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Castle Pines at the 92nd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 3,743 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Castle Pines at the 91st national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Castle Pines's buildings actually sit
3,743 buildings are counted in Castle Pines, and 63.9% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 27.7% in Direct exposure or the 8.4% rated Minimal.
Where Castle Pines ranks
There's little gap between Castle Pines's 92nd national percentile and its 79th percentile inside Colorado, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Castle Pines ranks 2,518 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,482 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 100 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Castle Pines and the insurance market
Castle Pines's 92nd-percentile, very 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 Castle Pines
Because 63.9% of Castle Pines'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.
Where Castle Pines's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Castle Pines's 2,518-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Castle Pines's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.