De Pere, WI
How exposed is De Pere to wildfire?
De Pere's 9,329 buildings earn a 12th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts De Pere at the 13th percentile, close to its 12th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 8.3% of De Pere's 9,329 buildings carry Direct exposure and 3.3% carry Indirect; the remaining 88.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 9,329 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How De Pere compares
There's little gap between De Pere's 12th national percentile and its 11th percentile inside Wisconsin, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, De Pere ranks 27,657 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,760 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 721 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
De Pere's low rating (12th 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 88.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, De Pere gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where De Pere's figures come from
De Pere's 12th-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 De Pere's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.