Blue Mounds, WI
How exposed is Blue Mounds to wildfire?
USFS scores Blue Mounds at the 39th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 451 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Blue Mounds's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 40th percentile nationally.
Where Blue Mounds's buildings actually sit
61.4% of Blue Mounds's 451 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 38.6% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Blue Mounds against the rest of the country
Compare Blue Mounds's two percentiles: 90th within Wisconsin, only 39th nationally — a gap of 51 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blue Mounds ranks 19,336 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,269 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 81 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
Blue Mounds's moderate rating (39th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Blue Mounds
Because 61.4% of Blue Mounds'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 451 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Blue Mounds. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Blue Mounds, see the exposure-zones guide.