Albany, WI
Albany wildfire risk explained
Albany's 713 buildings earn a 20th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Albany's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 21st percentile nationally.
Where Albany's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 71% of Albany's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 29% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Albany against the rest of the country
Albany scores 20th nationally and 31st within Wisconsin — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Albany ranks 25,201 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,536 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 557 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Albany and the insurance market
Albany's moderate rating (20th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 71% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Albany gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Albany's 20th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Albany, see the exposure-zones guide.