Bedford, WY
How exposed is Bedford to wildfire?
USFS scores Bedford at the 81st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 437 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Bedford at the 80th percentile, close to its 81st-percentile risk score.
Bedford's building exposure, zone by zone
437 buildings are counted in Bedford, and 97.7% 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 Bedford ranks
Bedford ranks lower within Wyoming (55th percentile statewide) than its 81st national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bedford ranks 6,005 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,528 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 88 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bedford
Bedford's very high rating (81st 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Bedford's 97.7% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bedford's 6,005-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Bedford, see the exposure-zones guide.