Coon Valley, WI
Coon Valley, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Coon Valley lands at the 34th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 499 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 Coon Valley at the 36th percentile, close to its 34th-percentile risk score.
Coon Valley's building exposure, zone by zone
499 buildings are counted in Coon Valley, and 83% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 17% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Coon Valley compares
Compare Coon Valley's two percentiles: 77th within Wisconsin, only 34th nationally — a gap of 43 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Coon Valley ranks 20,941 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,384 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 186 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Coon Valley
At the 34th national percentile, Coon Valley rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Coon Valley (83% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Coon Valley's 20,941-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Coon Valley, see the exposure-zones guide.