VIDEO: There’s new research showing Colorado’s communities have some of the best ratings in the nation when it comes to being prepared for a wildfire.
The research is based off a multitude of factors. Overall though, when you rank states who are prone to wildfires, Colorado comes in second place for most prepared in the nation.
Analysts at QuoteWizard.com looked at communities in each state and studied their fire departments, water supplies, emergency communications and risk reduction programs to determine their ISO, or fire score ratings.
ISO ratings measure how prepared an area is to respond to fires and sorts communities into classes 1 through 10, with class 1 being the best and class 10 being the worst.
When you break it all down, Colorado has eight communities that are rated class 1, 61 communities that are class 2 and 106 communities that are considered class 3.