Keenesburg, CO
Keenesburg wildfire risk explained
Keenesburg's 761 buildings earn a 79th-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 Keenesburg at the 79th percentile, close to its 79th-percentile risk score.
Where Keenesburg's buildings actually sit
Most of Keenesburg's buildings (82.8%) 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.
How Keenesburg compares
Keenesburg's 79th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 51st ranking inside Colorado does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 28 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Keenesburg ranks 6,706 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,003 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 230 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Keenesburg's high rating (79th 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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Keenesburg (82.8% 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
Keenesburg's 79th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Keenesburg, see the exposure-zones guide.