Syracuse, UT
How exposed is Syracuse to wildfire?
Syracuse sits at the 77th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 9,469 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Syracuse at the 76th percentile, close to its 77th-percentile risk score.
Syracuse's building exposure, zone by zone
52.4% of Syracuse's 9,469 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 16% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 9,469 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Syracuse against the rest of the country
Syracuse's 77th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 34th ranking inside Utah does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 43 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Syracuse ranks 7,265 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,723 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 217 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Syracuse's 77th-percentile, 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 52.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Syracuse gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Syracuse's figures come from
Syracuse's 77th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Syracuse's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.