Auburn, WY
Auburn wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Auburn lands at the 87th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 380 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 Auburn at the 88th percentile, close to its 87th-percentile risk score.
Auburn's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Auburn's 380 counted buildings, 98.4% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Auburn compares
Auburn scores 87th nationally and 80th within Wyoming — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Auburn ranks 4,113 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,662 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 39 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Auburn
Auburn's 87th-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 Auburn
Auburn's 98.4% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 380 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Auburn. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Auburn, see the exposure-zones guide.