Paradise, UT
Paradise, UT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Paradise lands at the 80th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 606 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 Paradise at the 79th percentile, close to its 80th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
606 buildings are counted in Paradise, and 71.3% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Paradise ranks
Inside Utah, Paradise sits at just the 39th percentile even though it scores 80th 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, Paradise ranks 6,478 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,753 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 199 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Paradise and the insurance market
Paradise's 80th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 71.3% of Paradise in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Paradise's 80th-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 Paradise, see the exposure-zones guide.