East Thermopolis, WY
East Thermopolis wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, East Thermopolis lands at the 72nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 177 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, East Thermopolis's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 67th percentile nationally.
East Thermopolis's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 94.4% of East Thermopolis's 177 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 5.7% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where East Thermopolis ranks
Inside Wyoming, East Thermopolis sits at just the 32nd percentile even though it scores 72nd 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, East Thermopolis ranks 8,999 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,768 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 131 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in East Thermopolis
East Thermopolis's 72nd-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
Because 94.4% of East Thermopolis'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 177 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for East Thermopolis. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond East Thermopolis, see the exposure-zones guide.