Federal Heights, CO
Federal Heights wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Federal Heights at the 38th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 4,220 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Federal Heights at the 39th percentile, close to its 38th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 99.5% of Federal Heights's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 0.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Federal Heights ranks
Federal Heights's 38th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 7th 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, Federal Heights ranks 19,624 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,039 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 440 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Federal Heights
Federal Heights's moderate wildfire rating (38th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Federal Heights
Even with 99.5% of Federal Heights 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.
Where Federal Heights's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Federal Heights's 19,624-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Federal Heights's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.