Newton, UT
Newton, UT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Newton's 583 buildings earn a 58th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Newton at the 57th percentile, close to its 58th-percentile risk score.
Where Newton's buildings actually sit
583 buildings are counted in Newton, and 61.1% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 18.2% rated Minimal.
Newton against the rest of the country
Inside Utah, Newton sits at just the 15th percentile even though it scores 58th 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, Newton ranks 13,221 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,067 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 276 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Newton
Newton's elevated rating (58th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Newton's 61.1% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Newton's 58th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Newton, see the exposure-zones guide.