Price, UT
Price, UT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Price lands at the 43rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 4,037 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Price's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 44th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
96.3% of Price's 4,037 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 3.7% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Price compares
Price's 43rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 5th ranking inside Utah does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 38 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Price ranks 18,011 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,206 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 309 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Price
Price's elevated wildfire rating (43rd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 96.3% of Price'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Price's 18,011-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Price, see the exposure-zones guide.