Dotsero, CO
Dotsero, CO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Dotsero at the 81st national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 342 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Dotsero at the 76th national percentile — 5 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Dotsero's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 69.3% of Dotsero's 342 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 29.5% Direct and 1.2% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Dotsero compares
Dotsero ranks lower within Colorado (56th percentile statewide) than its 81st national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dotsero ranks 5,916 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,505 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 207 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
Dotsero's very high rating (81st percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Dotsero
Because 69.3% of Dotsero'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
Dotsero's 81st-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 Dotsero, see the exposure-zones guide.