Columbine, CO
Columbine, CO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Columbine's 8,983 buildings earn a 83rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Columbine at the 85th percentile, close to its 83rd-percentile risk score.
Where Columbine's buildings actually sit
Columbine rates 84.6% Minimal exposure against just 12% Direct and 3.4% Indirect — of 8,983 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 8,983 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Columbine against the rest of the country
Columbine's 83rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 61st ranking inside Colorado does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 22 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Columbine ranks 5,442 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,852 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 186 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Columbine
Columbine's 83rd-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Columbine's 84.6% 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.
Where Columbine's figures come from
Columbine's 83rd-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 Columbine's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.