Cascade, WI
Cascade, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Cascade lands at the 25th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 405 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Cascade at the 26th percentile, close to its 25th-percentile risk score.
Where Cascade's buildings actually sit
Cascade rates 50.4% Minimal exposure against just 49.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 405 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Cascade compares
Compare Cascade's two percentiles: 50th within Wisconsin, only 25th nationally — a gap of 25 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cascade ranks 23,592 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,130 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 406 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Cascade and the insurance market
Cascade's moderate rating (25th 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 Cascade
With 50.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Cascade 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Cascade's 23,592-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Cascade, see the exposure-zones guide.