Hyrum, UT
Hyrum wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Hyrum at the 81st national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 3,373 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hyrum at the 74th national percentile — 7 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Hyrum's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 29.9% of Hyrum's 3,373 buildings carry Direct exposure and 16.7% carry Indirect; the remaining 53.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Hyrum ranks
Inside Utah, Hyrum sits at just the 41st percentile even though it scores 81st 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, Hyrum ranks 5,974 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,953 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 194 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Hyrum and the insurance market
At the 81st percentile nationally, Hyrum 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 Hyrum
Even with 53.4% of Hyrum outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Hyrum'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 minimal exposure implies beyond Hyrum, see the exposure-zones guide.