La Barge, WY
How exposed is La Barge to wildfire?
La Barge's 419 buildings earn a 58th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts La Barge at the 55th percentile, close to its 58th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of La Barge's buildings (62.5%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
La Barge against the rest of the country
Inside Wyoming, La Barge sits at just the 15th 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, La Barge ranks 13,129 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,852 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 164 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
La Barge and the insurance market
La Barge's elevated wildfire rating (58th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
La Barge's 62.5% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind La Barge's 13,129-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond La Barge, see the exposure-zones guide.