Sherrelwood, CO
Sherrelwood wildfire risk explained
Sherrelwood's 5,926 buildings earn a 31st-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 Sherrelwood at the 32nd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Sherrelwood's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 99.5% of Sherrelwood's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 0.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 5,926 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Sherrelwood compares
Sherrelwood ranks lower within Colorado (5th percentile statewide) than its 31st national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sherrelwood ranks 21,672 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,908 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 451 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sherrelwood
Sherrelwood's moderate rating (31st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 99.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Sherrelwood gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sherrelwood's 21,672-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Sherrelwood, see the exposure-zones guide.