Greenwood Village, CO
Greenwood Village, CO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Greenwood Village's 5,076 buildings earn a 54th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Greenwood Village at the 56th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
75.8% of Greenwood Village's 5,076 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 24.3% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 5,076 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Greenwood Village against the rest of the country
Greenwood Village ranks lower within Colorado (22nd percentile statewide) than its 54th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Greenwood Village ranks 14,551 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,395 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 367 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Greenwood Village and the insurance market
Greenwood Village's elevated wildfire rating (54th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 75.8% of Greenwood Village outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Greenwood Village's 54th-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 Greenwood Village, see the exposure-zones guide.