Mountain View, WY
Mountain View, WY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Mountain View at the 76th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 731 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mountain View at the 75th percentile, close to its 76th-percentile risk score.
Where Mountain View's buildings actually sit
Most of Mountain View's buildings (74.8%) 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.
Mountain View against the rest of the country
Inside Wyoming, Mountain View sits at just the 40th percentile even though it scores 76th 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, Mountain View ranks 7,455 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,328 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 116 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mountain View
At the 76th percentile nationally, Mountain View carries the 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
Mountain View's 74.8% 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 Mountain View's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 731 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mountain View. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mountain View's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.