Englewood, CO
How exposed is Englewood to wildfire?
Englewood sits at the 37th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 14,553 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Englewood at the 42nd national percentile — 5 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Englewood's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 1.4% of Englewood's 14,553 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 98.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 14,553 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Englewood ranks
Englewood's 37th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 6th ranking inside Colorado does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 31 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Englewood ranks 19,970 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,030 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 444 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Englewood and the insurance market
At the 37th national percentile, Englewood rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 98.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Englewood gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Englewood's 37th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Englewood, see the exposure-zones guide.