Sundance, WY
How exposed is Sundance to wildfire?
USFS scores Sundance at the 80th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 926 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Sundance's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 80th percentile nationally.
Sundance's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Sundance's buildings (63.3%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Sundance ranks
Inside Wyoming, Sundance sits at just the 49th percentile even though it scores 80th 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, Sundance ranks 6,415 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,509 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 98 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sundance
Sundance's high rating (80th 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 Sundance
Because 63.3% of Sundance'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.
Where Sundance's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 926 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sundance. The exposure-zones guide covers what Sundance's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.