Mancos, CO
Mancos wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Mancos at the 90th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 752 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mancos at the 89th percentile, close to its 90th-percentile risk score.
Mancos's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 71.9% of Mancos's 752 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 28.1% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Mancos compares
Inside Colorado, Mancos sits at just the 75th percentile even though it scores 90th 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, Mancos ranks 3,046 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,098 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 118 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Mancos and the insurance market
At the 90th percentile nationally, Mancos 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Mancos (71.9% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Mancos's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mancos's 3,046-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mancos's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.