Brookfield, WI
Brookfield wildfire risk explained
Brookfield's 15,356 buildings earn a 27th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Brookfield's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 29th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
55% of Brookfield's 15,356 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 38% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 15,356 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Brookfield ranks
Brookfield's 54th-percentile standing inside Wisconsin outpaces its 27th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brookfield ranks 23,086 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 964 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 369 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
Brookfield's moderate rating (27th 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 Brookfield
With 55% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Brookfield gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brookfield's 23,086-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Brookfield, see the exposure-zones guide.