Franklin, WI
How exposed is Franklin to wildfire?
Franklin's 12,428 buildings earn a 29th-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 Franklin at the 31st percentile, close to its 29th-percentile risk score.
Franklin's building exposure, zone by zone
Franklin rates 69.4% Minimal exposure against just 30.1% Direct and 0.5% Indirect — of 12,428 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 12,428 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Franklin against the rest of the country
Compare Franklin's two percentiles: 62nd within Wisconsin, only 29th nationally — a gap of 33 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Franklin ranks 22,362 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,242 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 307 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Franklin
Franklin's moderate rating (29th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 69.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Franklin 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Franklin's 22,362-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Franklin, see the exposure-zones guide.