Dove Valley, CO
Dove Valley, CO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Dove Valley's 1,066 buildings earn a 62nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Dove Valley at the 64th percentile, close to its 62nd-percentile risk score.
Where Dove Valley's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 89.7% of Dove Valley's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 10.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Dove Valley ranks
Dove Valley's 62nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 30th ranking inside Colorado does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 32 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dove Valley ranks 11,872 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,485 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 331 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
Dove Valley's 62nd-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.
Hardening a home in Dove Valley
Even with 89.7% of Dove Valley outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Dove Valley's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Dove Valley's 11,872-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Dove Valley's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.