French Island, WI
How exposed is French Island to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts French Island at the 18th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 2,238 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts French Island at the 19th percentile, close to its 18th-percentile risk score.
French Island's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 2.6% of French Island's 2,238 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 97.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where French Island ranks
French Island's risk sits at a similar level relative to Wisconsin (24th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (18th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, French Island ranks 25,957 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,844 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 618 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in French Island
French Island's low wildfire rating (18th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
French Island's 97.4% 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 French Island's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,238 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for French Island. The exposure-zones guide covers what French Island's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.