Santa Clara, UT
How exposed is Santa Clara to wildfire?
Santa Clara sits at the 93rd 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 2,757 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Santa Clara at the 93rd percentile, close to its 93rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 84.8% of Santa Clara's 2,757 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 15.2% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Santa Clara ranks
Santa Clara's 93rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 66th ranking inside Utah does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 26 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Santa Clara ranks 2,346 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,837 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 111 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Santa Clara
At the 93rd percentile nationally, Santa Clara 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
Because 84.8% of Santa Clara's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,757 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Santa Clara. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Santa Clara, see the exposure-zones guide.