Fort Laramie, WY
Fort Laramie, WY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Fort Laramie's 198 buildings earn a 82nd-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Fort Laramie's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 82nd percentile nationally.
Where Fort Laramie's buildings actually sit
Most of Fort Laramie's buildings (95%) 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 Fort Laramie ranks
Inside Wyoming, Fort Laramie sits at just the 59th percentile even though it scores 82nd 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, Fort Laramie ranks 5,594 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,945 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 80 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
Fort Laramie's very high rating (82nd 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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Fort Laramie (95% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Fort Laramie's 82nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Fort Laramie, see the exposure-zones guide.