Eastman, WI
Eastman wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Eastman at the 31st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 331 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 Eastman at the 33rd percentile, close to its 31st-percentile risk score.
Where Eastman's buildings actually sit
Most of Eastman's buildings (55.3%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Eastman against the rest of the country
Eastman's 68th-percentile standing inside Wisconsin outpaces its 31st 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, Eastman ranks 21,733 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,807 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 261 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Eastman
Eastman's moderate wildfire rating (31st 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
Eastman's 55.3% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Eastman's 21,733-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Eastman, see the exposure-zones guide.