Julesburg, CO
Julesburg wildfire risk explained
Julesburg sits at the 64th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,009 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 Julesburg at the 62nd percentile, close to its 64th-percentile risk score.
Where Julesburg's buildings actually sit
Most of Julesburg's buildings (96.8%) 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.
Where Julesburg ranks
Inside Colorado, Julesburg sits at just the 31st percentile even though it scores 64th 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, Julesburg ranks 11,272 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,866 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 327 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Julesburg
Julesburg's high rating (64th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 96.8% of Julesburg'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Julesburg's 11,272-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Julesburg, see the exposure-zones guide.