Amberg, WI
How exposed is Amberg to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Amberg at the 25th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 225 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Amberg at the 24th percentile, close to its 25th-percentile risk score.
Amberg's building exposure, zone by zone
225 buildings are counted in Amberg, and 52% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Amberg compares
Amberg's 49th-percentile standing inside Wisconsin outpaces its 25th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Amberg ranks 23,624 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,968 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 408 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Amberg
Amberg's moderate wildfire rating (25th 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 Amberg
With 52% of Amberg in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 225 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Amberg. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Amberg, see the exposure-zones guide.