Aniwa, WI
How exposed is Aniwa to wildfire?
USFS scores Aniwa at the 25th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 211 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Aniwa at the 25th percentile, close to its 25th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 69.2% of Aniwa's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 30.8% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 146 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Aniwa ranks
Compare Aniwa's two percentiles: 49th within Wisconsin, only 25th nationally — a gap of 24 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Aniwa ranks 23,685 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,462 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 411 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Aniwa and the insurance market
Aniwa'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 Aniwa
Because Direct exposure dominates in Aniwa (69.2%), 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Aniwa's 23,685-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Aniwa, see the exposure-zones guide.