Eagle Mountain, UT
Eagle Mountain, UT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Eagle Mountain at the 99th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 10,459 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Eagle Mountain at the 98th percentile, close to its 99th-percentile risk score.
Where Eagle Mountain's buildings actually sit
74.2% of Eagle Mountain's 10,459 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 25.8% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone. At 10,459 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Eagle Mountain compares
Eagle Mountain scores 99th nationally and 96th within Utah — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Eagle Mountain ranks 488 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,521 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 16 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Eagle Mountain and the insurance market
Eagle Mountain'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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 74.2% of Eagle Mountain'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 10,459 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Eagle Mountain. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Eagle Mountain, see the exposure-zones guide.