Edgerton, WY
How exposed is Edgerton to wildfire?
Edgerton's 201 buildings earn a 81st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Edgerton at the 78th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Edgerton's buildings (56.7%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Edgerton ranks
Edgerton's 81st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 53rd ranking inside Wyoming does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 27 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Edgerton ranks 6,067 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,827 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 89 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Edgerton
Edgerton's 81st-percentile, very 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
Edgerton's 56.7% 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 Edgerton's figures come from
Edgerton's 81st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Edgerton's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.