Afton, WY
Afton, WY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Afton at the 82nd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 1,801 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Afton at the 81st percentile, close to its 82nd-percentile risk score.
Where Afton's buildings actually sit
1,801 buildings are counted in Afton, and 58.6% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Afton ranks
Inside Wyoming, Afton sits at just the 58th percentile even though it scores 82nd 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, Afton ranks 5,592 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,058 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 78 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Afton's very high rating (82nd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Afton (58.6%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Afton's 5,592-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Afton, see the exposure-zones guide.