Emigration Canyon, UT
Emigration Canyon, UT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Emigration Canyon's 768 buildings earn a 99th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Emigration Canyon at the 98th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
768 buildings are counted in Emigration Canyon, and 98.3% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Emigration Canyon ranks
Emigration Canyon scores 99th nationally and 97th within Utah — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Emigration Canyon ranks 394 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,938 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 11 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Emigration Canyon and the insurance market
Emigration Canyon's 99th-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
Emigration Canyon's 98.3% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Emigration Canyon's figures come from
Emigration Canyon's 99th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Emigration Canyon's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.