El Rancho, WY
El Rancho wildfire risk explained
El Rancho sits at the 94th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 24 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks El Rancho at the 95th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where El Rancho's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in El Rancho: 100% of its 24 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap. This is a small settlement by building count — 24 total — so these shares describe a handful of structures, not a statistical average across thousands.
El Rancho against the rest of the country
There's little gap between El Rancho's 94th national percentile and its 98th percentile inside Wyoming, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, El Rancho ranks 1,876 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,434 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 5 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in El Rancho
El Rancho's very high rating (94th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
El Rancho'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.
Where El Rancho's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind El Rancho's 1,876-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. Small places like El Rancho (24 buildings) are exactly where USFS's underlying data gets sparsest — see the data-quality guide for the 517 places that didn't clear the bar.