Cheyenne, WY
Cheyenne wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Cheyenne at the 83rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 28,194 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Cheyenne's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 83rd percentile nationally.
Where Cheyenne's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 60% of Cheyenne's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 4.6% Direct and 35.4% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 28,194 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Cheyenne compares
Inside Wyoming, Cheyenne sits at just the 62nd percentile even though it scores 83rd 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, Cheyenne ranks 5,278 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 429 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 72 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cheyenne
Cheyenne's 83rd-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 Cheyenne
With 60% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Cheyenne gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 28,194 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Cheyenne. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Cheyenne, see the exposure-zones guide.