Dousman, WI
Dousman wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Dousman at the 40th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 878 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Dousman at the 42nd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
878 buildings are counted in Dousman, and 61.2% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 36% in Direct exposure or the 2.9% rated Minimal.
Where Dousman ranks
Within Wisconsin, Dousman ranks higher (91st percentile) than it does nationally (40th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dousman ranks 18,927 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,928 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 72 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Dousman and the insurance market
Dousman's moderate wildfire rating (40th 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 Dousman
Because 61.2% of Dousman's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Dousman's 40th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Dousman, see the exposure-zones guide.