Darien, WI
Darien wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Darien at the 9th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 750 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Darien at the 8th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Darien's building exposure, zone by zone
Darien rates 73.2% Minimal exposure against just 26.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 750 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Darien compares
There's little gap between Darien's 9th national percentile and its 5th percentile inside Wisconsin, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Darien ranks 28,731 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,130 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 770 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Darien and the insurance market
Darien's low rating (9th 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
Darien's 73.2% 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 750 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Darien. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Darien, see the exposure-zones guide.