Chaseburg, WI
How exposed is Chaseburg to wildfire?
USFS scores Chaseburg at the 35th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 171 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Chaseburg at the 37th percentile, close to its 35th-percentile risk score.
Chaseburg's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 52.6% of Chaseburg's 171 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 47.4% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Chaseburg ranks
Compare Chaseburg's two percentiles: 82nd within Wisconsin, only 35th nationally — a gap of 47 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Chaseburg ranks 20,564 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,006 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 150 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
At the 35th national percentile, Chaseburg rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 52.6% of Chaseburg's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Chaseburg's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 171 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Chaseburg. The exposure-zones guide covers what Chaseburg's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.