Providence, UT
Providence wildfire risk explained
Providence sits at the 93rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 2,831 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Providence at the 89th national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Providence's buildings actually sit
2,831 buildings are counted in Providence, and 62.7% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 27.7% in Direct exposure or the 9.6% rated Minimal.
Providence against the rest of the country
Providence's 93rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 70th ranking inside Utah does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 24 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Providence ranks 2,124 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,697 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 99 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Providence
Providence's 93rd-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Providence's 62.7% 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.
More on how this number was built
Providence's 93rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Providence, see the exposure-zones guide.