Cattle Creek, CO
How exposed is Cattle Creek to wildfire?
USFS scores Cattle Creek at the 84th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 321 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 Cattle Creek at the 82nd percentile, close to its 84th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
321 buildings are counted in Cattle Creek, and 72.6% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 27.4% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Cattle Creek compares
Cattle Creek ranks lower within Colorado (64th percentile statewide) than its 84th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cattle Creek ranks 5,010 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,053 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 171 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cattle Creek
Cattle Creek's very high rating (84th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 72.6% of Cattle Creek'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 Cattle Creek's 5,010-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Cattle Creek, see the exposure-zones guide.