Crandon, WI
How exposed is Crandon to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Crandon at the 16th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 1,294 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Crandon at the 15th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 50.8% of Crandon's 1,294 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 47.5% Direct and 1.7% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Crandon compares
Crandon's risk sits at a similar level relative to Wisconsin (20th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (16th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Crandon ranks 26,397 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,103 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 644 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Crandon and the insurance market
At the 16th national percentile, Crandon rates low 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 Crandon (50.8% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Crandon's figures come from
Crandon's 16th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Crandon's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.