Rock Springs, WY
Rock Springs wildfire risk explained
Rock Springs's 9,665 buildings earn a 66th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Rock Springs's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 60th percentile nationally.
Rock Springs's building exposure, zone by zone
87.5% of Rock Springs's 9,665 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 5.2% Direct and 7.2% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone. At 9,665 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Rock Springs against the rest of the country
Rock Springs's 66th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 23rd ranking inside Wyoming does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 43 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rock Springs ranks 10,891 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,692 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 149 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Rock Springs's high rating (66th 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.
Hardening a home in Rock Springs
Because 87.5% of Rock Springs's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Rock Springs's 66th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Rock Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.