Nucla, CO
Nucla, CO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Nucla lands at the 73rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 538 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 Nucla at the 68th percentile, close to its 73rd-percentile risk score.
Where Nucla's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Nucla (76.4% of 538 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 23.6% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Nucla ranks
Inside Colorado, Nucla sits at just the 41st percentile even though it scores 73rd 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, Nucla ranks 8,656 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,744 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 279 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Nucla
Nucla's high rating (73rd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Nucla
Because 76.4% of Nucla's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Nucla's 73rd-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 Nucla, see the exposure-zones guide.