Brooklyn, WI
How exposed is Brooklyn to wildfire?
USFS scores Brooklyn at the 19th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 660 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Brooklyn at the 19th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Brooklyn's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 74.9% of Brooklyn's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 25.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Brooklyn compares
Brooklyn's risk sits at a similar level relative to Wisconsin (27th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (19th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brooklyn ranks 25,544 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,072 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 586 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Brooklyn and the insurance market
Brooklyn's low wildfire rating (19th 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
Brooklyn's 74.9% 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.
Where Brooklyn's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brooklyn's 25,544-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Brooklyn's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.