Danbury, WI
How exposed is Danbury to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Danbury lands at the 58th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 225 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 Danbury at the 57th percentile, close to its 58th-percentile risk score.
Where Danbury's buildings actually sit
225 buildings are counted in Danbury, and 62.2% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Danbury ranks
Danbury's 100th-percentile standing inside Wisconsin outpaces its 58th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Danbury ranks 13,285 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,969 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 4 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Danbury and the insurance market
Danbury's elevated rating (58th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Danbury's 62.2% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 225 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Danbury. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Danbury, see the exposure-zones guide.