Kamas, UT
Kamas, UT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Kamas at the 92nd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 1,116 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Kamas's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 91st percentile nationally.
Kamas's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 53.8% of Kamas's 1,116 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 46.2% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Kamas compares
Kamas's 92nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 64th ranking inside Utah does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 28 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kamas ranks 2,566 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,179 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 116 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Kamas
At the 92nd percentile nationally, Kamas 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 53.8% of Kamas'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 Kamas's 2,566-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Kamas, see the exposure-zones guide.