Wanship, UT
How exposed is Wanship to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wanship at the 95th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 397 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wanship at the 91st national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 85.1% of Wanship's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 14.9% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 338 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Wanship against the rest of the country
Wanship's 95th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 80th ranking inside Utah does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 15 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wanship ranks 1,651 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,284 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 67 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
Wanship's 95th-percentile, very 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 85.1% of Wanship in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Wanship's 95th-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 Wanship, see the exposure-zones guide.