Jackson, WY
How exposed is Jackson to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Jackson lands at the 88th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 3,463 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Jackson at the 86th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Jackson's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 74.2% of Jackson's 3,463 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 25.8% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Jackson against the rest of the country
Jackson scores 88th nationally and 83rd within Wyoming — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Jackson ranks 3,799 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,825 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 33 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
Jackson's 88th-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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Jackson (74.2% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Jackson's 3,799-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Jackson, see the exposure-zones guide.