Scipio, UT
How exposed is Scipio to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Scipio lands at the 93rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 439 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Scipio's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 91st percentile nationally.
Where Scipio's buildings actually sit
72% of Scipio's 439 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 316 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 28% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Scipio compares
Inside Utah, Scipio sits at just the 69th percentile even though it scores 93rd 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, Scipio ranks 2,157 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,497 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 101 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Scipio and the insurance market
Scipio's very high rating (93rd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Scipio's 72% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Scipio's 2,157-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Scipio, see the exposure-zones guide.