Rockville, UT
Rockville wildfire risk explained
Rockville's 266 buildings earn a 89th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Rockville at the 84th national percentile — 5 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
96.6% of Rockville's 266 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 257 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 3.4% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Rockville against the rest of the country
Inside Utah, Rockville sits at just the 51st percentile even though it scores 89th 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, Rockville ranks 3,542 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,653 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 159 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Rockville and the insurance market
At the 89th percentile nationally, Rockville carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 96.6% of Rockville in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Rockville's 89th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Rockville, see the exposure-zones guide.