Moose Wilson Road, WY
Moose Wilson Road wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Moose Wilson Road lands at the 87th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 1,293 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 Moose Wilson Road at the 87th percentile, close to its 87th-percentile risk score.
Moose Wilson Road's building exposure, zone by zone
1,293 buildings are counted in Moose Wilson Road, and 95.4% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0.2% rated Minimal.
Where Moose Wilson Road ranks
Moose Wilson Road scores 87th nationally and 79th 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, Moose Wilson Road ranks 4,145 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,108 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 42 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
Moose Wilson Road and the insurance market
At the 87th percentile nationally, Moose Wilson Road 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.
Hardening a home in Moose Wilson Road
Because Direct exposure dominates in Moose Wilson Road (95.4%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Moose Wilson Road's 4,145-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Moose Wilson Road, see the exposure-zones guide.