Fort Atkinson, WI
Fort Atkinson, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Fort Atkinson sits at the 31st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 5,216 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Fort Atkinson's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 32nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Fort Atkinson's buildings (93.1% of 5,216) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 5,216 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Fort Atkinson ranks
Within Wisconsin, Fort Atkinson ranks higher (69th percentile) than it does nationally (31st) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fort Atkinson ranks 21,670 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,305 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 256 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Fort Atkinson and the insurance market
Fort Atkinson'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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 93.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Fort Atkinson 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
Fort Atkinson's 31st-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 Fort Atkinson, see the exposure-zones guide.