Ivins, UT
How exposed is Ivins to wildfire?
Ivins sits at the 96th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 4,246 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Ivins at the 96th percentile, close to its 96th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Ivins's buildings (53.2%) 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 Ivins compares
There's little gap between Ivins's 96th national percentile and its 84th percentile inside Utah, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ivins ranks 1,369 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,020 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 52 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Ivins and the insurance market
Ivins'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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Ivins (53.2% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ivins's 1,369-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Ivins, see the exposure-zones guide.