Lander, WY
Lander, WY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Lander lands at the 86th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 3,908 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Lander at the 86th percentile, close to its 86th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Lander (87.5% of 3,908 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 12.5% sit in the Direct zone.
How Lander compares
Lander scores 86th nationally and 74th 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, Lander ranks 4,461 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,332 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 51 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
Lander and the insurance market
At the 86th percentile nationally, Lander carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Lander's 87.5% 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 Lander's 4,461-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Lander, see the exposure-zones guide.