Brown Deer, WI
Brown Deer, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Brown Deer sits at the 23rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 4,950 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Brown Deer at the 26th percentile, close to its 23rd-percentile risk score.
Where Brown Deer's buildings actually sit
86.5% of Brown Deer's 4,950 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 13.5% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Brown Deer against the rest of the country
Compare Brown Deer's two percentiles: 41st within Wisconsin, only 23rd nationally — a gap of 18 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brown Deer ranks 24,348 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,462 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 478 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Brown Deer and the insurance market
At the 23rd national percentile, Brown Deer 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 86.5% of Brown Deer 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,950 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Brown Deer. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Brown Deer, see the exposure-zones guide.