Glenbeulah, WI
Glenbeulah, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Glenbeulah's 302 buildings earn a 32nd-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 Glenbeulah at the 33rd percentile, close to its 32nd-percentile risk score.
Glenbeulah's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 69.2% of Glenbeulah's 302 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 30.8% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Glenbeulah against the rest of the country
Compare Glenbeulah's two percentiles: 70th within Wisconsin, only 32nd nationally — a gap of 38 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glenbeulah ranks 21,511 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,591 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 242 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Glenbeulah
Glenbeulah's moderate rating (32nd 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 Glenbeulah
Glenbeulah's 69.2% 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 Glenbeulah's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Glenbeulah's 21,511-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Glenbeulah's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.