Hot Sulphur Springs, CO
Hot Sulphur Springs, CO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Hot Sulphur Springs lands at the 81st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 404 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 Hot Sulphur Springs at the 79th percentile, close to its 81st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Hot Sulphur Springs's buildings (62.1%) 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 Hot Sulphur Springs compares
Hot Sulphur Springs's 81st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 56th ranking inside Colorado does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 25 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hot Sulphur Springs ranks 5,978 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,133 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 211 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hot Sulphur Springs
At the 81st percentile nationally, Hot Sulphur Springs carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Hot Sulphur Springs
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Hot Sulphur Springs (62.1% 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
Hot Sulphur Springs's 81st-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 Hot Sulphur Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.