Baggs, WY
Baggs wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Baggs at the 84th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 351 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 Baggs at the 83rd percentile, close to its 84th-percentile risk score.
Where Baggs's buildings actually sit
74.4% of Baggs's 351 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 25.6% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Baggs compares
Baggs's 84th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 65th ranking inside Wyoming does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 18 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Baggs ranks 5,184 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,298 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 67 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
Baggs and the insurance market
Baggs's 84th-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 Baggs
Baggs's 74.4% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Baggs's 5,184-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Baggs, see the exposure-zones guide.