Hatch, UT
Hatch, UT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Hatch lands at the 83rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 192 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hatch at the 78th percentile, close to its 83rd-percentile risk score.
Where Hatch's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Hatch: 65.1% of its 192 buildings, versus 34.9% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Hatch compares
Inside Utah, Hatch sits at just the 42nd percentile even though it scores 83rd 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, Hatch ranks 5,530 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,179 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 189 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hatch
Hatch's very high rating (83rd 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
Hatch's 65.1% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hatch's 5,530-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Hatch, see the exposure-zones guide.