Fairview, UT
Fairview wildfire risk explained
Fairview's 926 buildings earn a 89th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Fairview at the 87th percentile, close to its 89th-percentile risk score.
Where Fairview's buildings actually sit
56.8% of Fairview's 926 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 43.2% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Fairview compares
Inside Utah, Fairview sits at just the 51st percentile even though it scores 89th 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, Fairview ranks 3,606 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,508 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 161 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fairview
Fairview's 89th-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.
Hardening a home in Fairview
Because 56.8% of Fairview'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
Fairview's 89th-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 Fairview, see the exposure-zones guide.