Garden, UT
How exposed is Garden to wildfire?
USFS scores Garden at the 94th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 974 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 Garden at the 91st percentile, close to its 94th-percentile risk score.
Where Garden's buildings actually sit
974 buildings are counted in Garden, and 67.5% 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.
Garden against the rest of the country
Inside Utah, Garden sits at just the 74th percentile even though it scores 94th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Garden ranks 1,966 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,113 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 85 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Garden
Garden's very high rating (94th 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 Garden
Garden's 67.5% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Garden's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Garden's 1,966-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Garden's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.