Brule, WI
Brule, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Brule at the 34th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 233 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Brule at the 32nd percentile, close to its 34th-percentile risk score.
Where Brule's buildings actually sit
233 buildings are counted in Brule, and 72.1% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Brule ranks
Brule's 76th-percentile standing inside Wisconsin outpaces its 34th 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, Brule ranks 20,975 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,718 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 193 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Brule
Brule's moderate wildfire rating (34th 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.
Hardening a home in Brule
Brule's 72.1% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Brule's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brule's 20,975-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Brule's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.