Kemmerer, WY
Kemmerer wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Kemmerer at the 58th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,239 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Kemmerer at the 52nd national percentile — 6 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Kemmerer's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Kemmerer (81.8% of 1,239 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 18.2% sit in the Direct zone.
Kemmerer against the rest of the country
Inside Wyoming, Kemmerer sits at just the 14th percentile even though it scores 58th 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, Kemmerer ranks 13,255 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,417 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 165 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
Kemmerer and the insurance market
Kemmerer's elevated rating (58th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Kemmerer
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Kemmerer (81.8% 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 Kemmerer's 13,255-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Kemmerer, see the exposure-zones guide.