Fountain City, WI
How exposed is Fountain City to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Fountain City lands at the 28th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 516 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Fountain City at the 29th percentile, close to its 28th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Fountain City's buildings (50.8%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Fountain City compares
Within Wisconsin, Fountain City ranks higher (59th percentile) than it does nationally (28th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fountain City ranks 22,675 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,095 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 333 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fountain City
At the 28th national percentile, Fountain City rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Fountain City's 50.8% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Fountain City's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 516 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Fountain City. The exposure-zones guide covers what Fountain City's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.