Springville, UT
How exposed is Springville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Springville lands at the 93rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 10,267 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Springville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 90th percentile nationally.
Springville's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Springville (50% of 10,267 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 13.8% sit in the Direct zone. At 10,267 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Springville against the rest of the country
Springville's 93rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 70th ranking inside Utah does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 24 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Springville ranks 2,158 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,562 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 102 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Springville
Springville'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.
What would actually reduce this score
Springville's 50% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 10,267 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Springville. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Springville, see the exposure-zones guide.