Redvale, CO
How exposed is Redvale to wildfire?
Redvale sits at the 92nd 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 213 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Redvale at the 88th national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
75.1% of Redvale's 213 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 160 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 24.9% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Redvale compares
Redvale's risk sits at a similar level relative to Colorado (78th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (92nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Redvale ranks 2,605 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,354 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 103 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Redvale and the insurance market
Redvale's 92nd-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
Redvale's 75.1% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Redvale's figures come from
Redvale's 92nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Redvale's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.