Erda, UT
Erda, UT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Erda's 2,013 buildings earn a 93rd-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Erda's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 94th percentile nationally.
Erda's building exposure, zone by zone
71.7% of Erda's 2,013 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 1,443 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 28.3% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Erda compares
Erda's 93rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 71st ranking inside Utah does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 22 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Erda ranks 2,093 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,441 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 95 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
Erda's very high rating (93rd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Erda's 71.7% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Erda's 2,093-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Erda, see the exposure-zones guide.