Elizabeth, CO
How exposed is Elizabeth to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Elizabeth at the 91st national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 882 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Elizabeth's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 91st percentile nationally.
Where Elizabeth's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 52.8% of Elizabeth's 882 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 47.2% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Elizabeth compares
Elizabeth scores 91st nationally and 76th 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, Elizabeth ranks 2,923 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,884 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 114 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Elizabeth
Elizabeth's very high rating (91st percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Elizabeth
Because 52.8% of Elizabeth'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
Elizabeth's 91st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Elizabeth, see the exposure-zones guide.