Orem, UT
How exposed is Orem to wildfire?
USFS scores Orem at the 91st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 23,812 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Orem at the 88th percentile, close to its 91st-percentile risk score.
Where Orem's buildings actually sit
74.2% of Orem's 23,812 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 3% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 23,812 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Orem compares
Orem's 91st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 61st ranking inside Utah does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 30 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Orem ranks 2,818 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 538 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 128 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Orem
Orem's very high rating (91st 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 Orem
With 74.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Orem gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Orem's 91st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Orem, see the exposure-zones guide.