Brookhurst, WY
How exposed is Brookhurst to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Brookhurst lands at the 87th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 206 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 Brookhurst at the 86th percentile, close to its 87th-percentile risk score.
Where Brookhurst's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 98.1% of Brookhurst's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 1.9% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 202 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Brookhurst ranks
Brookhurst scores 87th nationally and 77th 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, Brookhurst ranks 4,176 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,652 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 44 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
Brookhurst and the insurance market
Brookhurst'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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 98.1% of Brookhurst 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.
Where Brookhurst's figures come from
Brookhurst's 87th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Brookhurst's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.