Eckley, CO
Eckley, CO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Eckley lands at the 57th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 220 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Eckley at the 54th national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Eckley's buildings actually sit
220 buildings are counted in Eckley, and 59.1% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 40.9% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Eckley compares
Inside Colorado, Eckley sits at just the 26th percentile even though it scores 57th 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, Eckley ranks 13,480 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,110 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 351 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
Eckley's elevated rating (57th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Eckley (59.1% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Eckley's 13,480-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Eckley, see the exposure-zones guide.