Myton, UT
Myton, UT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Myton sits at the 62nd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 341 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Myton at the 60th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Myton's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Myton (73.9% of 341 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 26.1% sit in the Direct zone.
How Myton compares
Inside Utah, Myton sits at just the 19th percentile even though it scores 62nd 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, Myton ranks 11,931 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,566 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 263 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Myton
Myton's 62nd-percentile, 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
Myton's 73.9% 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
Myton's 62nd-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 Myton, see the exposure-zones guide.