Parowan, UT
Parowan, UT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Parowan at the 95th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 1,781 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Parowan at the 90th national percentile — 5 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
55.9% of Parowan's 1,781 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 43.4% Direct and 0.8% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Parowan ranks
Parowan's 95th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 78th ranking inside Utah does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 17 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Parowan ranks 1,749 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,122 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 74 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Parowan
Parowan's 95th-percentile, very 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.
Hardening a home in Parowan
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Parowan (55.9% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,781 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Parowan. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Parowan, see the exposure-zones guide.