Leeds, UT
How exposed is Leeds to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Leeds at the 95th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 532 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Leeds's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 94th percentile nationally.
Where Leeds's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 77.3% of Leeds's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 22.7% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 411 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Leeds compares
Leeds's risk sits at a similar level relative to Utah (81st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (95th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Leeds ranks 1,529 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,841 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 62 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Leeds's 95th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Leeds's 77.3% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Leeds's 1,529-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Leeds, see the exposure-zones guide.