Rockvale, CO
Rockvale, CO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Rockvale's 460 buildings earn a 91st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Rockvale at the 91st percentile, close to its 91st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
460 buildings are counted in Rockvale, and 78.9% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Rockvale compares
Rockvale scores 91st nationally and 77th within Colorado — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rockvale ranks 2,704 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,051 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 108 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Rockvale and the insurance market
Rockvale's 91st-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 Rockvale
Rockvale's 78.9% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 460 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Rockvale. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Rockvale, see the exposure-zones guide.