Hillrose, CO
Hillrose wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Hillrose at the 53rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 169 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Hillrose's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 52nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Hillrose's buildings (88.8%) 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.
How Hillrose compares
Hillrose's 53rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 22nd ranking inside Colorado does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 32 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hillrose ranks 14,741 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,061 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 370 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 53rd national percentile, Hillrose rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 88.8% of Hillrose's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Hillrose's 53rd-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 Hillrose, see the exposure-zones guide.