Red Butte, WY
How exposed is Red Butte to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Red Butte at the 90th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 290 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Red Butte at the 87th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Red Butte's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Red Butte (54.1% of 290 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 45.9% sit in the Direct zone.
Red Butte against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Red Butte's 90th national percentile and its 89th percentile inside Wyoming, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Red Butte ranks 3,326 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,931 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 22 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Red Butte
Red Butte's very high rating (90th 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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Red Butte (54.1% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Red Butte's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Red Butte's 3,326-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Red Butte's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.