Firestone, CO
Firestone wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Firestone at the 51st national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 5,531 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Firestone at the 53rd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Firestone's buildings actually sit
Firestone rates 82.4% Minimal exposure against just 17.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 5,531 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 5,531 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Firestone against the rest of the country
Firestone's 51st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 20th 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, Firestone ranks 15,402 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,114 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 378 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Firestone
Firestone's elevated wildfire rating (51st 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 Firestone
Firestone's 82.4% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Firestone's 51st-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 Firestone, see the exposure-zones guide.