Wyoming, MN
Wyoming wildfire risk explained
Wyoming sits at the 70th 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 3,769 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Wyoming's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 63rd percentile nationally.
Where Wyoming's buildings actually sit
Of Wyoming's 3,769 counted buildings, 78.3% carry Direct exposure and only 1.1% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Wyoming ranks
Compare Wyoming's two percentiles: 94th within Minnesota, only 70th nationally — a gap of 24 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wyoming ranks 9,452 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,453 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 58 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wyoming
Wyoming's 70th-percentile, 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Wyoming (78.3%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,769 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Wyoming. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Wyoming, see the exposure-zones guide.