DeForest, WI
How exposed is DeForest to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, DeForest lands at the 28th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 3,400 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks DeForest at the 28th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where DeForest's buildings actually sit
Only 13.7% of DeForest's 3,400 buildings carry Direct exposure and 2.9% carry Indirect; the remaining 83.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How DeForest compares
Within Wisconsin, DeForest ranks higher (58th percentile) than it does nationally (28th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, DeForest ranks 22,706 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,919 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 340 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in DeForest
DeForest's moderate rating (28th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in DeForest
Even with 83.5% of DeForest outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
DeForest's 28th-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 DeForest, see the exposure-zones guide.