West Point, UT
West Point wildfire risk explained
West Point sits at the 71st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 3,936 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks West Point at the 69th national percentile — 1 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
West Point rates 59.3% Minimal exposure against just 29% Direct and 11.7% Indirect — of 3,936 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where West Point ranks
West Point's 71st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 30th ranking inside Utah does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 41 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, West Point ranks 9,313 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,300 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 230 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 Point's 71st-percentile, 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
West Point's 59.3% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind West Point's 9,313-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond West Point, see the exposure-zones guide.