Grand Junction, CO
Grand Junction, CO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Grand Junction's 29,921 buildings earn a 71st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Grand Junction at the 66th national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Grand Junction's building exposure, zone by zone
Grand Junction rates 65.6% Minimal exposure against just 6.6% Direct and 27.8% Indirect — of 29,921 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 29,921 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Grand Junction against the rest of the country
Inside Colorado, Grand Junction sits at just the 38th percentile even though it scores 71st 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, Grand Junction ranks 9,258 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 387 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 293 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Grand Junction and the insurance market
Grand Junction's high rating (71st 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 65.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Grand Junction gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Grand Junction's 71st-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 Grand Junction, see the exposure-zones guide.