Daniel, WY
Daniel wildfire risk explained
Daniel sits at the 77th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 159 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 Daniel at the 77th percentile, close to its 77th-percentile risk score.
Where Daniel's buildings actually sit
100% of Daniel's 159 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 159 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Daniel ranks
Daniel ranks lower within Wyoming (44th percentile statewide) than its 77th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Daniel ranks 7,140 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,511 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 108 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Daniel
Daniel'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.
Hardening a home in Daniel
Daniel's 100% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Daniel's 7,140-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Daniel, see the exposure-zones guide.