Midvale, UT
Midvale wildfire risk explained
Midvale sits at the 46th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 9,844 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Midvale at the 46th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Midvale's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 99% of Midvale's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 9,844 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Midvale compares
Midvale's 46th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 7th ranking inside Utah does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 39 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Midvale ranks 17,097 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,644 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 303 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Midvale
Midvale's elevated rating (46th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Midvale's 99% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Midvale's 17,097-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Midvale, see the exposure-zones guide.