Fox Farm-College, WY
Fox Farm-College, WY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Fox Farm-College lands at the 80th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 2,429 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Fox Farm-College at the 79th national percentile — 1 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
Indirect exposure is dominant in Fox Farm-College (72.6% of 2,429 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 17.1% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Fox Farm-College ranks
Fox Farm-College's 80th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 51st ranking inside Wyoming does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 30 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fox Farm-College ranks 6,193 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,440 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 94 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fox Farm-College
Fox Farm-College's 80th-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.
Hardening a home in Fox Farm-College
Fox Farm-College's 72.6% 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 Fox Farm-College's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Fox Farm-College's 6,193-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Fox Farm-College's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.