Timnath, CO
Timnath wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Timnath at the 62nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 2,736 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Timnath at the 64th percentile, close to its 62nd-percentile risk score.
Where Timnath's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 50.4% of Timnath's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 45.8% Indirect share and far above its 3.9% Minimal share — a profile where 1,378 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Timnath compares
Timnath's 62nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 29th ranking inside Colorado does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 33 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Timnath ranks 11,907 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,870 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 334 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Timnath
Timnath's 62nd-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.
Hardening a home in Timnath
Because Direct exposure dominates in Timnath (50.4%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Timnath's 62nd-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 Timnath, see the exposure-zones guide.