Cody, WY
How exposed is Cody to wildfire?
Cody's 5,734 buildings earn a 64th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Cody's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 58th percentile nationally.
Cody's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Cody (90.5% of 5,734 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 9.5% sit in the Direct zone. At 5,734 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Cody against the rest of the country
Cody ranks lower within Wyoming (20th percentile statewide) than its 64th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cody ranks 11,269 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,015 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 153 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cody
Cody's 64th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 90.5% of Cody's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Cody's 64th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Cody, see the exposure-zones guide.