Santaquin, UT
How exposed is Santaquin to wildfire?
USFS scores Santaquin at the 96th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 4,117 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Santaquin at the 94th percentile, close to its 96th-percentile risk score.
Where Santaquin's buildings actually sit
75% of Santaquin's 4,117 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 25% Direct and 0.1% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Santaquin compares
There's little gap between Santaquin's 96th national percentile and its 85th percentile inside Utah, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Santaquin ranks 1,245 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,130 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 49 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Santaquin's very high rating (96th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Santaquin (75% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Santaquin's 1,245-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Santaquin, see the exposure-zones guide.