Moorcroft, WY
Moorcroft, WY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Moorcroft at the 81st national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 574 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Moorcroft at the 80th percentile, close to its 81st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
86.1% of Moorcroft's 574 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 13.9% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Moorcroft compares
Moorcroft's 81st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 53rd ranking inside Wyoming does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 28 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Moorcroft ranks 6,100 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,190 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 91 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
Moorcroft and the insurance market
Moorcroft's very high rating (81st percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Moorcroft
Because 86.1% of Moorcroft's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 574 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Moorcroft. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Moorcroft, see the exposure-zones guide.