Glenwood City, WI
How exposed is Glenwood City to wildfire?
USFS scores Glenwood City at the 22nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 729 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Glenwood City's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 22nd percentile nationally.
Where Glenwood City's buildings actually sit
Only 43.6% of Glenwood City's 729 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 56.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Glenwood City against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Glenwood City's 22nd national percentile and its 36th percentile inside Wisconsin, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glenwood City ranks 24,757 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,360 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 515 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 22nd national percentile, Glenwood City rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 56.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Glenwood City gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 729 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Glenwood City. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Glenwood City, see the exposure-zones guide.