Como, WI
How exposed is Como to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Como at the 24th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,506 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Como at the 24th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Como's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 41.2% of Como's 1,506 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 58.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Como against the rest of the country
Compare Como's two percentiles: 45th within Wisconsin, only 24th nationally — a gap of 21 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Como ranks 23,967 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,145 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 441 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Como
Como's moderate wildfire rating (24th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 58.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Como 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,506 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Como. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Como, see the exposure-zones guide.