Hill View Heights, WY
Hill View Heights, WY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Hill View Heights at the 87th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 144 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Hill View Heights's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 86th percentile nationally.
Where Hill View Heights's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Hill View Heights: 70.1% of its 144 buildings, versus 29.9% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Hill View Heights ranks
Hill View Heights's risk sits at a similar level relative to Wyoming (76th 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, Hill View Heights ranks 4,271 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,140 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 47 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
Hill View Heights'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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 70.1% of Hill View Heights 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 Hill View Heights's figures come from
Hill View Heights's 87th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Hill View Heights's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.