Friendship, WI
How exposed is Friendship to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Friendship at the 47th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 449 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Friendship at the 46th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Friendship's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 65.7% of Friendship's 449 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 29.8% Direct and 4.5% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Friendship against the rest of the country
Compare Friendship's two percentiles: 97th within Wisconsin, only 47th nationally — a gap of 50 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Friendship ranks 16,879 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,310 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 28 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Friendship
Friendship's elevated rating (47th 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 Friendship
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Friendship (65.7% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Friendship's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Friendship's 16,879-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Friendship's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.