Ettrick, WI
How exposed is Ettrick to wildfire?
Ettrick's 337 buildings earn a 27th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Ettrick at the 28th percentile, close to its 27th-percentile risk score.
Ettrick's building exposure, zone by zone
337 buildings are counted in Ettrick, and 83.1% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 16.9% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Ettrick ranks
Within Wisconsin, Ettrick ranks higher (54th percentile) than it does nationally (27th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ettrick ranks 23,087 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,672 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 370 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ettrick
Ettrick's moderate rating (27th 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 Ettrick
Because 83.1% of Ettrick'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
Ettrick's 27th-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 Ettrick, see the exposure-zones guide.