Bairoil, WY
How exposed is Bairoil to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Bairoil at the 62nd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 148 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 Bairoil at the 55th percentile, close to its 62nd-percentile risk score.
Bairoil's building exposure, zone by zone
148 buildings are counted in Bairoil, and 55.4% 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.
How Bairoil compares
Inside Wyoming, Bairoil sits at just the 19th percentile even though it scores 62nd 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, Bairoil ranks 12,120 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,976 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 155 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
Bairoil and the insurance market
Bairoil's 62nd-percentile, 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Bairoil (55.4%), 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
Bairoil's 62nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Bairoil, see the exposure-zones guide.