Redlands, CO
Redlands wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Redlands lands at the 82nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 4,864 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 Redlands at the 77th percentile, close to its 82nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
4,864 buildings are counted in Redlands, and 67.8% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 32.1% in Direct exposure or the 0.1% rated Minimal.
How Redlands compares
Inside Colorado, Redlands sits at just the 57th percentile even though it scores 82nd 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, Redlands ranks 5,730 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,517 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 202 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Redlands and the insurance market
Redlands's 82nd-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 Redlands
Redlands's 67.8% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Redlands's 5,730-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Redlands, see the exposure-zones guide.