Wyoming, RI
Wyoming wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wyoming at the 27th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 212 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wyoming at the 23rd national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Wyoming's buildings actually sit
Most of Wyoming's buildings (70.3%) 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.
Wyoming against the rest of the country
Within Rhode Island, Wyoming ranks higher (74th percentile) than it does nationally (27th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wyoming ranks 23,021 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,416 by building count (1 is largest). Within Rhode Island alone, it ranks 10 of 36 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Rhode Island on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Wyoming's moderate wildfire rating (27th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Wyoming
Because 70.3% of Wyoming'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 Wyoming's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wyoming's 23,021-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Wyoming's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.