Blair, WI
How exposed is Blair to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Blair at the 27th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 770 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Blair at the 28th percentile, close to its 27th-percentile risk score.
Blair's building exposure, zone by zone
79.4% of Blair's 770 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 20.7% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Blair ranks
Within Wisconsin, Blair ranks higher (55th percentile) than it does nationally (27th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blair ranks 23,084 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,921 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 367 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Blair
Blair's moderate wildfire rating (27th 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
Because 79.4% of Blair's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 770 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Blair. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Blair, see the exposure-zones guide.