Snowville, UT
Snowville wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Snowville lands at the 99th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 213 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Snowville at the 99th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Snowville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 54% of Snowville's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 46% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 115 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Snowville ranks
There's little gap between Snowville's 99th national percentile and its 98th percentile inside Utah, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Snowville ranks 235 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,383 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 7 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Snowville
Snowville's 99th-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Snowville
With 54% of Snowville in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Snowville's 235-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Snowville, see the exposure-zones guide.