Casper, WY
How exposed is Casper to wildfire?
Casper sits at the 91st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 23,794 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Casper at the 89th percentile, close to its 91st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Casper rates 49.7% Minimal exposure against just 4% Direct and 46.3% Indirect — of 23,794 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 23,794 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Casper compares
Casper scores 91st nationally and 95th 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, Casper ranks 2,915 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 539 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 11 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Casper
Casper's very high rating (91st 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
Casper's 49.7% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Casper's figures come from
Casper's 91st-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 Casper's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.