Erie, CO
Erie, CO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Erie's 10,427 buildings earn a 56th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Erie at the 58th percentile, close to its 56th-percentile risk score.
Where Erie's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 84.2% of Erie's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 13.6% Direct and 2.2% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 10,427 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Erie ranks
Erie's 56th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 25th 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, Erie ranks 13,890 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,524 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 355 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Erie
At the 56th national percentile, Erie rates elevated 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 Erie
Even with 84.2% of Erie outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Erie's 56th-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 Erie, see the exposure-zones guide.