Bayside, WI
How exposed is Bayside to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Bayside at the 23rd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,688 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bayside at the 25th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Bayside's buildings (67% of 1,688) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Bayside against the rest of the country
Within Wisconsin, Bayside ranks higher (42nd percentile) than it does nationally (23rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bayside ranks 24,252 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,466 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 467 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
At the 23rd national percentile, Bayside rates moderate 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
Even with 67% of Bayside outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bayside's 24,252-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Bayside, see the exposure-zones guide.