Heeney, CO
How exposed is Heeney to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Heeney lands at the 66th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 162 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 Heeney at the 63rd percentile, close to its 66th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Heeney's 162 counted buildings, 92.6% carry Direct exposure and only 7.4% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Heeney compares
Inside Colorado, Heeney sits at just the 33rd percentile even though it scores 66th 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, Heeney ranks 10,832 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,322 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 319 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Heeney and the insurance market
Heeney's 66th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 92.6% of Heeney 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Heeney's 10,832-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Heeney, see the exposure-zones guide.