Valmont, CO
Valmont, CO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Valmont at the 82nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 78 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 Valmont at the 84th percentile, close to its 82nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Valmont: 75.6% of its 78 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 24.4% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Valmont compares
Valmont ranks lower within Colorado (57th percentile statewide) than its 82nd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Valmont ranks 5,789 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,956 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 203 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Valmont
Valmont's very high rating (82nd 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.
Hardening a home in Valmont
Valmont's 75.6% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Valmont's 5,789-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Valmont, see the exposure-zones guide.