Wheatland, WY
Wheatland wildfire risk explained
Wheatland sits at the 65th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 2,632 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 Wheatland at the 63rd percentile, close to its 65th-percentile risk score.
Where Wheatland's buildings actually sit
2,632 buildings are counted in Wheatland, and 73.9% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 14.2% in Direct exposure or the 11.9% rated Minimal.
Where Wheatland ranks
Inside Wyoming, Wheatland sits at just the 22nd percentile even though it scores 65th 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, Wheatland ranks 10,985 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,049 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 150 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
Wheatland and the insurance market
At the 65th percentile nationally, Wheatland carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 73.9% of Wheatland'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
Wheatland's 65th-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 Wheatland, see the exposure-zones guide.