Argonne, WI
How exposed is Argonne to wildfire?
USFS scores Argonne at the 20th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 140 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Argonne's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 20th percentile nationally.
Argonne's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Argonne's 140 counted buildings, 57.9% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Argonne against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Argonne's 20th national percentile and its 30th percentile inside Wisconsin, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Argonne ranks 25,357 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,313 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 570 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Argonne and the insurance market
Argonne's low wildfire rating (20th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 57.9% of Argonne 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Argonne's 25,357-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Argonne, see the exposure-zones guide.