Dane, WI
Dane, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Dane at the 6th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 506 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Dane at the 6th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Dane's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 20.8% of Dane's 506 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 79.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Dane compares
There's little gap between Dane's 6th national percentile and its 1st percentile inside Wisconsin, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dane ranks 29,802 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,249 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 798 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dane
Dane's low wildfire rating (6th 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.
Hardening a home in Dane
Dane's 79.3% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 506 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Dane. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Dane, see the exposure-zones guide.