Emery, UT
Emery wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Emery at the 39th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 310 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Emery's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 40th percentile nationally.
Where Emery's buildings actually sit
63.9% of Emery's 310 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 36.1% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Emery compares
Inside Utah, Emery sits at just the 4th percentile even though it scores 39th 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, Emery ranks 19,240 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,379 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 313 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Emery's moderate wildfire rating (39th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Emery
Because 63.9% of Emery'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
Emery's 39th-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 Emery, see the exposure-zones guide.