Freedom, WY
Freedom wildfire risk explained
Freedom sits at the 67th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 282 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Freedom at the 67th percentile, close to its 67th-percentile risk score.
Freedom's building exposure, zone by zone
282 buildings are counted in Freedom, and 66.3% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Freedom ranks
Inside Wyoming, Freedom sits at just the 24th percentile even though it scores 67th 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, Freedom ranks 10,511 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,143 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 146 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Freedom
Freedom's 67th-percentile, 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 Freedom
With 66.3% of Freedom in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Freedom's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Freedom's 10,511-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Freedom's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.