Williamsburg, CO
Williamsburg wildfire risk explained
Williamsburg's 474 buildings earn a 90th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Williamsburg at the 89th percentile, close to its 90th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 96.2% of Williamsburg's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 3.8% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 456 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Williamsburg against the rest of the country
Williamsburg's 90th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 75th ranking inside Colorado does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 15 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Williamsburg ranks 3,114 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,808 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 119 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Williamsburg and the insurance market
Williamsburg's very high rating (90th 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 Williamsburg
Williamsburg's 96.2% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Williamsburg's 3,114-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Williamsburg, see the exposure-zones guide.