Sundance, UT
Sundance, UT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Sundance at the 99th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 355 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sundance at the 99th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Sundance's buildings actually sit
355 buildings are counted in Sundance, and 98.6% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Sundance ranks
Sundance's risk sits at a similar level relative to Utah (98th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (99th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sundance ranks 236 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,206 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 8 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sundance
Sundance's very high rating (99th 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
Sundance's 98.6% 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
Sundance's 99th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Sundance, see the exposure-zones guide.