GovBot Community Wildfire Risk

Read-only access to the USDA Forest Service Wildfire Risk to Communities summaries for counties, communities and tribal areas, and to the Forest Service Wildfire Hazard Potential at a location. No account or sign-in is required.

Sources

• USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Modeling Institute: Wildfire Risk to Communities county, community (Census place), tribal area and state summary data, published in the U.S. Forest Service ArcGIS Online organization (2nd edition, 2024; 2025 summary release on 2023 Census boundaries; Forest Service Research Data Archive RDS-2024-0030).
• USDA Forest Service: Wildfire Hazard Potential for the United States, version 2023, 270-meter cells (Research Data Archive RDS-2015-0047-4), published as Forest Service Enterprise Data Warehouse image services.

Each result states the publisher, dataset, release, data-edit date and retrieval time. Records are held for up to one hour to limit repeat requests.

Available operations

• Wildfire risk summary for a county: buildings and housing units in the direct and indirect exposure zones, and percentile ranks within the state and nation for wildfire likelihood, risk to homes, Wildfire Hazard Potential and expected annual housing unit risk.
• The same summary for a city, town, census-designated place or tribal area by name.
• Counties of a state ordered by one of those ranks.
• Wildfire Hazard Potential class and index of the 270-meter cell at a latitude and longitude.
• Dataset descriptions, citations, vintages and definitions.

The MCP endpoint is https://wildfirerisk.govbot.ai/mcp.

Scope and support

These are modeled, landscape-scale estimates for comparing relative wildfire risk among communities. They are not a rating of any individual home or property and not an insurance, building-code, land-use or evacuation determination. They contain no current fire or weather information: current fires are reported by the National Interagency Fire Center and local officials, evacuation orders come from local emergency management, and emergencies are reported to 911. GovBot is not affiliated with or endorsed by the USDA Forest Service or any government agency.

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