Littleton, CO
Littleton, CO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Littleton at the 91st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 14,239 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Littleton at the 92nd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Littleton's building exposure, zone by zone
Littleton rates 86.1% Minimal exposure against just 9.3% Direct and 4.7% Indirect — of 14,239 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 14,239 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Littleton compares
Littleton scores 91st nationally and 77th within Colorado — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Littleton ranks 2,729 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,051 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 109 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Littleton
Littleton's 91st-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Littleton's 86.1% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Littleton's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Littleton's 2,729-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Littleton's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.