Meadow, UT
Meadow wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Meadow lands at the 90th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 297 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Meadow at the 89th percentile, close to its 90th-percentile risk score.
Where Meadow's buildings actually sit
Of Meadow's 297 counted buildings, 72.7% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Meadow against the rest of the country
Meadow ranks lower within Utah (56th percentile statewide) than its 90th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Meadow ranks 3,036 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,719 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 143 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Meadow and the insurance market
Meadow's 90th-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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Meadow (72.7%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Meadow's 3,036-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Meadow, see the exposure-zones guide.