Wellsville, UT
How exposed is Wellsville to wildfire?
Wellsville's 1,806 buildings earn a 92nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Wellsville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 88th percentile nationally.
Where Wellsville's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 47.8% of Wellsville's 1,806 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 45.9% Direct and 6.3% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Wellsville compares
Inside Utah, Wellsville sits at just the 66th percentile even though it scores 92nd nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wellsville ranks 2,411 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,046 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 113 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
Wellsville's 92nd-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.
Hardening a home in Wellsville
Because 47.8% of Wellsville'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.
Where Wellsville's figures come from
Wellsville's 92nd-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 Wellsville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.