Lusk, WY
How exposed is Lusk to wildfire?
Lusk sits at the 88th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,067 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lusk at the 86th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Lusk's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Lusk's buildings (92.9%) 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.
Where Lusk ranks
There's little gap between Lusk's 88th national percentile and its 82nd percentile inside Wyoming, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lusk ranks 3,925 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,483 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 36 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lusk
Lusk'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
Lusk's 92.9% 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.
Where Lusk's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lusk's 3,925-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lusk's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.