West Wood, UT
How exposed is West Wood to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, West Wood lands at the 45th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 397 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks West Wood at the 48th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where West Wood's buildings actually sit
Most of West Wood's buildings (80.6%) 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 Wood compares
Inside Utah, West Wood sits at just the 7th percentile even though it scores 45th 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 Wood ranks 17,383 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,285 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 305 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
West Wood and the insurance market
West Wood's elevated wildfire rating (45th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
West Wood's 80.6% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 397 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for West Wood. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond West Wood, see the exposure-zones guide.