Pine Bluffs, WY
How exposed is Pine Bluffs to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pine Bluffs at the 70th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 922 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pine Bluffs at the 68th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Pine Bluffs's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Pine Bluffs's buildings (82.7%) 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.
Pine Bluffs against the rest of the country
Pine Bluffs's 70th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 29th ranking inside Wyoming does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 41 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pine Bluffs ranks 9,504 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,542 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 136 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pine Bluffs
At the 70th percentile nationally, Pine Bluffs 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.
Hardening a home in Pine Bluffs
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Pine Bluffs (82.7% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pine Bluffs's 9,504-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Pine Bluffs, see the exposure-zones guide.