Grand View Estates, CO
Grand View Estates wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Grand View Estates at the 74th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 494 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Grand View Estates's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 74th percentile nationally.
Where Grand View Estates's buildings actually sit
Of Grand View Estates's 494 counted buildings, 98.8% carry Direct exposure and only 1% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Grand View Estates ranks
Inside Colorado, Grand View Estates sits at just the 43rd percentile even though it scores 74th 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 View Estates ranks 8,316 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,454 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 271 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Grand View Estates and the insurance market
Grand View Estates's 74th-percentile, 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 98.8% of Grand View Estates 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 Grand View Estates's figures come from
Grand View Estates's 74th-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 Grand View Estates's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.