Wright, WY
Wright, WY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Wright sits at the 89th 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 927 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wright at the 88th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
927 buildings are counted in Wright, and 68.5% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 31.5% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Wright ranks
Wright scores 89th nationally and 89th within Wyoming — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wright ranks 3,420 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,505 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 23 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
Wright and the insurance market
Wright's 89th-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.
Hardening a home in Wright
Because 68.5% of Wright'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
Wright's 89th-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 Wright, see the exposure-zones guide.