Echo, UT
Echo, UT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Echo lands at the 89th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 45 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Echo at the 86th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Echo's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Echo: 82.2% of its 45 buildings, versus 17.8% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Echo compares
Echo's 89th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 51st ranking inside Utah does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 38 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Echo ranks 3,576 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,064 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 160 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Echo and the insurance market
Echo's 89th-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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Echo (82.2%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 45 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Echo. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Echo, see the exposure-zones guide.