Farr West, UT
Farr West wildfire risk explained
Farr West sits at the 70th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 3,336 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Farr West at the 68th percentile, close to its 70th-percentile risk score.
Where Farr West's buildings actually sit
Only 25.9% of Farr West's 3,336 buildings carry Direct exposure and 4.7% carry Indirect; the remaining 69.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Farr West compares
Farr West's 70th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 28th ranking inside Utah does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 42 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Farr West ranks 9,626 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,998 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 236 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Farr West and the insurance market
Farr West's high rating (70th 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.
Hardening a home in Farr West
Even with 69.4% of Farr West 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
Farr West's 70th-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 Farr West, see the exposure-zones guide.