Jackson Lake, CO
Jackson Lake wildfire risk explained
Jackson Lake's 232 buildings earn a 76th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Jackson Lake at the 76th percentile, close to its 76th-percentile risk score.
Jackson Lake's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Jackson Lake (73.7% of 232 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 19.8% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Jackson Lake ranks
Inside Colorado, Jackson Lake sits at just the 46th percentile even though it scores 76th 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, Jackson Lake ranks 7,587 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,725 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 257 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Jackson Lake
Jackson Lake's 76th-percentile, 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
Because 73.7% of Jackson Lake'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.
Where Jackson Lake's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Jackson Lake's 7,587-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Jackson Lake's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.