Deaver, WY
Deaver, WY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Deaver lands at the 46th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 140 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Deaver at the 44th percentile, close to its 46th-percentile risk score.
Deaver's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 72.9% of Deaver's 140 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 27.1% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Deaver ranks
Inside Wyoming, Deaver sits at just the 4th percentile even though it scores 46th 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, Deaver ranks 17,132 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,315 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 184 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
Deaver and the insurance market
Deaver's elevated wildfire rating (46th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Deaver's 72.9% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Deaver's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 140 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Deaver. The exposure-zones guide covers what Deaver's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.