Augusta, WI
How exposed is Augusta to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Augusta at the 25th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 865 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Augusta's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 25th percentile nationally.
Augusta's building exposure, zone by zone
61.7% of Augusta's 865 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 29.1% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Augusta against the rest of the country
Within Wisconsin, Augusta ranks higher (47th percentile) than it does nationally (25th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Augusta ranks 23,814 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,035 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 428 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Augusta and the insurance market
Augusta's moderate rating (25th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Augusta's 61.7% 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
Augusta's 25th-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 Augusta, see the exposure-zones guide.