Sanford, CO
Sanford wildfire risk explained
Sanford's 603 buildings earn a 27th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sanford at the 23rd national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Sanford's buildings actually sit
Most of Sanford's buildings (46.6% of 603) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Sanford compares
Inside Colorado, Sanford sits at just the 3rd percentile even though it scores 27th 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, Sanford ranks 22,965 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,796 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 457 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Sanford and the insurance market
At the 27th national percentile, Sanford rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Sanford's 46.6% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 603 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sanford. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Sanford, see the exposure-zones guide.