Osage, WY
Osage, WY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Osage's 198 buildings earn a 85th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Osage at the 84th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
198 buildings are counted in Osage, and 58.1% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 41.9% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Osage compares
Osage's risk sits at a similar level relative to Wyoming (70th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (85th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Osage ranks 4,713 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,947 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 58 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Osage
Osage's very high rating (85th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Osage's 58.1% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 198 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Osage. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Osage, see the exposure-zones guide.