Cherry Creek, CO
Cherry Creek, CO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Cherry Creek's 3,166 buildings earn a 64th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Cherry Creek's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 65th percentile nationally.
Where Cherry Creek's buildings actually sit
89.6% of Cherry Creek's 3,166 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 10.5% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Cherry Creek against the rest of the country
Inside Colorado, Cherry Creek sits at just the 31st percentile even though it scores 64th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cherry Creek ranks 11,271 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,208 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 326 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cherry Creek
Cherry Creek's high rating (64th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Cherry Creek's 89.6% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Cherry Creek's 11,271-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Cherry Creek, see the exposure-zones guide.