Clinton, UT
Clinton, UT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Clinton at the 61st national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 7,396 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Clinton's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 62nd percentile nationally.
Where Clinton's buildings actually sit
89.5% of Clinton's 7,396 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 10.6% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 7,396 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Clinton against the rest of the country
Inside Utah, Clinton sits at just the 18th percentile even though it scores 61st 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, Clinton ranks 12,370 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,307 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 267 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
Clinton's 61st-percentile, 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
Even with 89.5% of Clinton outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Clinton's figures come from
Clinton's 61st-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 Clinton's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.