Crisman, CO
Crisman wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Crisman at the 99th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 135 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Crisman at the 99th percentile, close to its 99th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 100% of Crisman's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 135 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Crisman ranks
There's little gap between Crisman's 99th national percentile and its 95th percentile inside Colorado, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Crisman ranks 348 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,482 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 22 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Crisman
Crisman's 99th-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.
Hardening a home in Crisman
With 100% of Crisman in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Crisman's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Crisman's 348-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Crisman's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.