Casco, WI
Casco wildfire risk explained
Casco sits at the 10th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 359 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Casco's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 10th percentile nationally.
Where Casco's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 54% of Casco's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 46% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Casco compares
Casco scores 10th nationally and 6th 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, Casco ranks 28,447 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,104 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 761 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Casco and the insurance market
Casco's low wildfire rating (10th 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 Casco
Even with 54% of Casco outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Casco's 28,447-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Casco, see the exposure-zones guide.