Evansville, WI
Evansville wildfire risk explained
Evansville's 2,495 buildings earn a 21st-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Evansville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 20th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 86.3% of Evansville's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 13.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Evansville compares
Evansville scores 21st nationally and 35th within Wisconsin — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Evansville ranks 24,886 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,305 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 527 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Evansville's moderate wildfire rating (21st 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 Evansville
Even with 86.3% of Evansville 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
Evansville's 21st-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 Evansville, see the exposure-zones guide.