Cedar Fort, UT
Cedar Fort, UT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Cedar Fort sits at the 99th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 333 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Cedar Fort at the 98th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Cedar Fort's buildings actually sit
333 buildings are counted in Cedar Fort, and 74.2% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Cedar Fort ranks
Cedar Fort's risk sits at a similar level relative to Utah (95th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (99th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cedar Fort ranks 487 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,744 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 15 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Cedar Fort's 99th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 74.2% of Cedar Fort in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Cedar Fort's 99th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Cedar Fort, see the exposure-zones guide.