Evansville, WY
Evansville wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Evansville lands at the 87th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 1,499 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Evansville at the 85th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Evansville's buildings actually sit
89.1% of Evansville's 1,499 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 10.9% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Evansville compares
Evansville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Wyoming (78th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (87th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Evansville ranks 4,177 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,176 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 45 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Evansville's 87th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Evansville's 89.1% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,499 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Evansville. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Evansville, see the exposure-zones guide.