West Jordan, UT
West Jordan, UT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
West Jordan sits at the 92nd 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 33,745 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, West Jordan's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 89th percentile nationally.
West Jordan's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 87.6% of West Jordan's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 4.2% Direct and 8.2% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 33,745 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How West Jordan compares
Inside Utah, West Jordan sits at just the 64th 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, West Jordan ranks 2,598 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 322 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 119 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in West Jordan
West Jordan's very high rating (92nd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
West Jordan's 87.6% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where West Jordan's figures come from
West Jordan'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 West Jordan's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.