Perry, UT
Perry, UT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Perry at the 90th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 2,043 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Perry at the 86th percentile, close to its 90th-percentile risk score.
Perry's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 82.7% of Perry's 2,043 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 17.3% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Perry compares
Perry ranks lower within Utah (54th percentile statewide) than its 90th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Perry ranks 3,261 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,349 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 150 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Perry and the insurance market
Perry's 90th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Perry's 82.7% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Perry's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Perry's 3,261-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Perry's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.