Cora, WY
Cora, WY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Cora at the 77th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 153 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Cora's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 77th percentile nationally.
Where Cora's buildings actually sit
Of Cora's 153 counted buildings, 100% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Cora compares
Inside Wyoming, Cora sits at just the 41st percentile even though it scores 77th 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, Cora ranks 7,297 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,782 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 114 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Cora's 77th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 100% of Cora 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.
More on how this number was built
Cora's 77th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Cora, see the exposure-zones guide.