Shoshoni, WY
Shoshoni wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Shoshoni at the 47th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 545 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Shoshoni's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 47th percentile nationally.
Shoshoni's building exposure, zone by zone
86.4% of Shoshoni's 545 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 13.6% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Shoshoni ranks
Inside Wyoming, Shoshoni sits at just the 5th percentile even though it scores 47th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Shoshoni ranks 16,753 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,648 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 183 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
Shoshoni and the insurance market
Shoshoni's elevated rating (47th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 86.4% of Shoshoni'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
Shoshoni's 47th-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 Shoshoni, see the exposure-zones guide.