Duchesne, UT
How exposed is Duchesne to wildfire?
Duchesne's 988 buildings earn a 50th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Duchesne at the 49th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Duchesne's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 79.1% of Duchesne's 988 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 21% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Duchesne compares
Inside Utah, Duchesne sits at just the 10th percentile even though it scores 50th 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, Duchesne ranks 15,807 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,025 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 295 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Duchesne's elevated wildfire rating (50th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 79.1% of Duchesne'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 988 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Duchesne. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Duchesne, see the exposure-zones guide.