Fountain Green, UT
Fountain Green wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Fountain Green lands at the 89th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 726 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Fountain Green at the 87th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 53.7% of Fountain Green's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 46.3% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 390 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Fountain Green against the rest of the country
Fountain Green ranks lower within Utah (52nd percentile statewide) than its 89th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fountain Green ranks 3,481 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,386 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 158 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Fountain Green and the insurance market
Fountain Green'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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Fountain Green (53.7%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Fountain Green's 3,481-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Fountain Green, see the exposure-zones guide.