Florissant, CO
Florissant, CO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Florissant lands at the 98th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 103 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Florissant at the 98th percentile, close to its 98th-percentile risk score.
Florissant's building exposure, zone by zone
103 buildings are counted in Florissant, and 100% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Florissant against the rest of the country
Florissant's risk sits at a similar level relative to Colorado (92nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (98th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Florissant ranks 598 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,880 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 41 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Florissant and the insurance market
Florissant's 98th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 100% of Florissant in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Florissant's figures come from
Florissant's 98th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Florissant's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.