Fond du Lac, WI
How exposed is Fond du Lac to wildfire?
Fond du Lac's 19,788 buildings earn a 34th-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 Fond du Lac at the 36th percentile, close to its 34th-percentile risk score.
Where Fond du Lac's buildings actually sit
Only 3.8% of Fond du Lac's 19,788 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 96.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 19,788 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Fond du Lac ranks
Compare Fond du Lac's two percentiles: 78th within Wisconsin, only 34th nationally — a gap of 44 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fond du Lac ranks 20,847 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 717 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 174 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
Fond du Lac's moderate rating (34th 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 Fond du Lac
With 96.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Fond du Lac gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 19,788 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Fond du Lac. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Fond du Lac, see the exposure-zones guide.