Brownsville, WI
How exposed is Brownsville to wildfire?
Brownsville's 342 buildings earn a 13th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Brownsville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 13th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Brownsville rates 88% Minimal exposure against just 12% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 342 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Brownsville compares
Brownsville scores 13th nationally and 12th within Wisconsin — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brownsville ranks 27,501 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,539 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 712 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Brownsville and the insurance market
Brownsville's low wildfire rating (13th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Brownsville's 88% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brownsville's 27,501-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Brownsville, see the exposure-zones guide.