Ashippun, WI
Ashippun wildfire risk explained
Ashippun's 500 buildings earn a 40th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Ashippun at the 41st national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Ashippun's buildings actually sit
Only 32.4% of Ashippun's 500 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 67.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Ashippun compares
Ashippun's 92nd-percentile standing inside Wisconsin outpaces its 40th 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, Ashippun ranks 18,864 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,369 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 69 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Ashippun and the insurance market
At the 40th national percentile, Ashippun rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 67.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Ashippun 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
Ashippun's 40th-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 Ashippun, see the exposure-zones guide.