Minersville, UT
Minersville, UT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Minersville lands at the 95th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 437 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Minersville at the 92nd national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Minersville's buildings actually sit
Most of Minersville's buildings (90.2%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Minersville against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Minersville's 95th national percentile and its 80th percentile inside Utah, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Minersville ranks 1,621 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,525 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 65 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
Minersville'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.
Hardening a home in Minersville
Minersville's 90.2% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Minersville's 95th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Minersville, see the exposure-zones guide.