Crawford, CO
Crawford, CO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Crawford lands at the 82nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 313 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Crawford's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 77th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 83.7% of Crawford's 313 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 16.3% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Crawford against the rest of the country
Inside Colorado, Crawford sits at just the 58th percentile even though it scores 82nd 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, Crawford ranks 5,666 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,276 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 197 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 82nd percentile nationally, Crawford carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Crawford's 83.7% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Crawford's 5,666-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Crawford, see the exposure-zones guide.