Doylestown, WI
Doylestown wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Doylestown at the 42nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 235 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Doylestown at the 42nd percentile, close to its 42nd-percentile risk score.
Doylestown's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Doylestown's buildings (58.3% of 235) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Where Doylestown ranks
Doylestown's 93rd-percentile standing inside Wisconsin outpaces its 42nd national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Doylestown ranks 18,453 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,652 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 58 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Doylestown
Doylestown's elevated wildfire rating (42nd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Doylestown's 58.3% 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.
Where Doylestown's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 235 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Doylestown. The exposure-zones guide covers what Doylestown's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.