Delta, UT
Delta, UT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Delta at the 80th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,725 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Delta at the 77th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Delta's buildings actually sit
Most of Delta's buildings (60.7%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Delta against the rest of the country
Delta's 80th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 39th ranking inside Utah does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 40 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Delta ranks 6,383 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,320 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 198 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Delta and the insurance market
Delta's 80th-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
Because 60.7% of Delta's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Delta's 80th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Delta, see the exposure-zones guide.