Elmo, UT
Elmo wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Elmo at the 24th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 242 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 Elmo at the 30th percentile, close to its 24th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 67.8% of Elmo's 242 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 32.2% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Elmo against the rest of the country
Elmo's 24th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 1st ranking inside Utah does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 23 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Elmo ranks 23,998 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,408 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 324 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Elmo
At the 24th national percentile, Elmo rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Elmo
Because 67.8% of Elmo'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Elmo's 23,998-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Elmo, see the exposure-zones guide.