Caledonia, WI
How exposed is Caledonia to wildfire?
Caledonia's 13,642 buildings earn a 27th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Caledonia's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 29th percentile nationally.
Caledonia's building exposure, zone by zone
Caledonia rates 66.8% Minimal exposure against just 33.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 13,642 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 13,642 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Caledonia compares
Within Wisconsin, Caledonia ranks higher (55th percentile) than it does nationally (27th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Caledonia ranks 22,994 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,111 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 362 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Caledonia's moderate rating (27th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Caledonia
Caledonia's 66.8% 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
Caledonia's 27th-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 Caledonia, see the exposure-zones guide.