Forest Junction, WI
Forest Junction, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Forest Junction sits at the 8th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 469 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Forest Junction's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 8th percentile nationally.
Where Forest Junction's buildings actually sit
71.4% of Forest Junction's 469 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 28.6% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Forest Junction against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Forest Junction's 8th national percentile and its 4th percentile inside Wisconsin, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Forest Junction ranks 28,952 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,913 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 776 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Forest Junction and the insurance market
Forest Junction's low rating (8th 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 Forest Junction
Forest Junction's 71.4% 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 Forest Junction's figures come from
Forest Junction's 8th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Forest Junction's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.