Echo Hills, CO
Echo Hills wildfire risk explained
Echo Hills sits at the 98th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 159 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Echo Hills at the 97th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Echo Hills's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 99.4% of Echo Hills's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0.6% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 158 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Echo Hills ranks
Echo Hills scores 98th nationally and 91st within Colorado — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Echo Hills ranks 630 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,469 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 43 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Echo Hills
Echo Hills's 98th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Echo Hills's 99.4% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Echo Hills's 98th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Echo Hills, see the exposure-zones guide.