Browns Lake, WI
Browns Lake, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Browns Lake's 1,155 buildings earn a 33rd-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Browns Lake at the 33rd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Browns Lake's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 53.9% of Browns Lake's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 31.5% Direct and 14.6% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Browns Lake ranks
Compare Browns Lake's two percentiles: 73rd within Wisconsin, only 33rd nationally — a gap of 41 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Browns Lake ranks 21,291 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,917 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 217 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Browns Lake
At the 33rd national percentile, Browns Lake 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
With 53.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Browns Lake 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
Browns Lake's 33rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Browns Lake, see the exposure-zones guide.