Redmond, UT
How exposed is Redmond to wildfire?
USFS scores Redmond at the 58th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 488 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Redmond at the 57th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Redmond's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 69.3% of Redmond's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 23.4% Direct and 7.4% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Redmond against the rest of the country
Redmond's 58th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 14th ranking inside Utah does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 43 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Redmond ranks 13,379 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,581 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 279 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Redmond and the insurance market
At the 58th national percentile, Redmond rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 69.3% of Redmond outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Redmond's 58th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Redmond, see the exposure-zones guide.