Herriman, UT
Herriman, UT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Herriman at the 96th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 12,578 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Herriman at the 93rd national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Herriman (48.1% of 12,578 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 16.1% sit in the Direct zone. At 12,578 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Herriman compares
Herriman scores 96th nationally and 83rd within Utah — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Herriman ranks 1,433 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,220 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 58 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Herriman and the insurance market
Herriman's 96th-percentile, very 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.
Hardening a home in Herriman
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Herriman (48.1% 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
Herriman's 96th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Herriman, see the exposure-zones guide.