Cuba City, WI
Cuba City, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Cuba City at the 2nd national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 1,086 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Cuba City at the 3rd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Cuba City's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 96.6% of Cuba City's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 3.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Cuba City ranks
There's little gap between Cuba City's 2nd national percentile and its 0th percentile inside Wisconsin, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cuba City ranks 30,780 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,371 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 807 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Cuba City and the insurance market
Cuba City's low rating (2nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 96.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Cuba City 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
Cuba City's 2nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Cuba City, see the exposure-zones guide.