Tooele, UT
Tooele wildfire risk explained
Tooele sits at the 98th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 12,486 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Tooele at the 97th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Tooele's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 88.1% of Tooele's 12,486 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 11.8% Direct and 0.1% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 12,486 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Tooele against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Tooele's 98th national percentile and its 92nd percentile inside Utah, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tooele ranks 741 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,236 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 27 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Tooele and the insurance market
At the 98th percentile nationally, Tooele carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 88.1% of Tooele's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Tooele's 98th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Tooele, see the exposure-zones guide.