South Park, WY
How exposed is South Park to wildfire?
South Park sits at the 85th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,147 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts South Park at the 84th percentile, close to its 85th-percentile risk score.
Where South Park's buildings actually sit
Of South Park's 1,147 counted buildings, 91.4% carry Direct exposure and only 0.1% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where South Park ranks
There's little gap between South Park's 85th national percentile and its 71st percentile inside Wyoming, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, South Park ranks 4,681 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,980 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 57 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
South Park's 85th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 91.4% of South Park 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.
Where South Park's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,147 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for South Park. The exposure-zones guide covers what South Park's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.