Alpine Northeast, WY
Alpine Northeast, WY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Alpine Northeast lands at the 82nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 184 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Alpine Northeast at the 77th percentile, close to its 82nd-percentile risk score.
Where Alpine Northeast's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Alpine Northeast: 97.3% of its 184 buildings, versus 2.7% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Alpine Northeast ranks
Alpine Northeast's 82nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 58th ranking inside Wyoming does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 24 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Alpine Northeast ranks 5,721 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,487 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 82 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Alpine Northeast
Alpine Northeast's 82nd-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Alpine Northeast
With 97.3% of Alpine Northeast in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 184 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Alpine Northeast. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Alpine Northeast, see the exposure-zones guide.