Center, CO
Center, CO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Center at the 5th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,164 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Center at the 4th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Center's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 1.3% of Center's 1,164 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 98.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Center compares
Center scores 5th nationally and 0th within Colorado — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Center ranks 29,993 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,874 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 472 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Center and the insurance market
At the 5th national percentile, Center rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Center
Center's 98.7% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Center's figures come from
Center's 5th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Center's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.