Auburndale, WI
Auburndale, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Auburndale sits at the 11th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 414 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Auburndale at the 10th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Auburndale's buildings actually sit
Only 18.6% of Auburndale's 414 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 81.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Auburndale ranks
Auburndale scores 11th nationally and 7th 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, Auburndale ranks 28,195 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,960 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 751 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Auburndale's low wildfire rating (11th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Auburndale's 81.4% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Auburndale's 11th-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 Auburndale, see the exposure-zones guide.