Friesland, WI
How exposed is Friesland to wildfire?
Friesland sits at the 29th 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 232 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Friesland at the 27th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Friesland's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 84.9% of Friesland's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 15.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Friesland against the rest of the country
Within Wisconsin, Friesland ranks higher (61st percentile) than it does nationally (29th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Friesland ranks 22,456 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,750 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 314 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Friesland
Friesland's moderate wildfire rating (29th 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.
Hardening a home in Friesland
Friesland's 84.9% 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.
More on how this number was built
Friesland's 29th-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 Friesland, see the exposure-zones guide.