West Bountiful, UT
West Bountiful wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, West Bountiful lands at the 70th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 2,665 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts West Bountiful at the 67th percentile, close to its 70th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of West Bountiful's buildings (36.5%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How West Bountiful compares
Inside Utah, West Bountiful sits at just the 28th percentile even though it scores 70th 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, West Bountiful ranks 9,596 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,993 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 235 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
West Bountiful's high rating (70th 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 West Bountiful
Because 36.5% of West Bountiful'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 West Bountiful's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,665 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for West Bountiful. The exposure-zones guide covers what West Bountiful's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.