Powder Horn, WY
How exposed is Powder Horn to wildfire?
Powder Horn's 330 buildings earn a 91st-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Powder Horn's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 94th percentile nationally.
Where Powder Horn's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Powder Horn: 90.6% of its 330 buildings, versus 9.4% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Powder Horn against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Powder Horn's 91st national percentile and its 94th percentile inside Wyoming, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Powder Horn ranks 2,916 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,841 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 12 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
Powder Horn and the insurance market
Powder Horn's 91st-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Powder Horn
With 90.6% of Powder Horn in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 330 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Powder Horn. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Powder Horn, see the exposure-zones guide.