Glendale, WI
How exposed is Glendale to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Glendale lands at the 22nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 5,705 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Glendale at the 25th percentile, close to its 22nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 88.5% of Glendale's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 11.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 5,705 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Glendale ranks
Compare Glendale's two percentiles: 39th within Wisconsin, only 22nd nationally — a gap of 17 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glendale ranks 24,506 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,031 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 493 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Glendale and the insurance market
Glendale's moderate rating (22nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 88.5% of Glendale outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Glendale's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 5,705 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Glendale. The exposure-zones guide covers what Glendale's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.