Green River, UT
How exposed is Green River to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Green River lands at the 31st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 713 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Green River at the 39th national percentile — 8 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Green River's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Green River's buildings (86.3%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Green River against the rest of the country
Green River ranks lower within Utah (3rd percentile statewide) than its 31st national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Green River ranks 21,761 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,535 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 318 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Green River and the insurance market
At the 31st national percentile, Green River rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Green River (86.3% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Green River's 21,761-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Green River, see the exposure-zones guide.