Green Valley, WI
Green Valley wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Green Valley 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 93 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 Green Valley at the 21st percentile, close to its 22nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Green Valley's buildings (72%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Green Valley compares
Green Valley's 39th-percentile standing inside Wisconsin outpaces its 22nd national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Green Valley ranks 24,475 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,383 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 490 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Green Valley
At the 22nd national percentile, Green Valley rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Green Valley's 72% 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.
More on how this number was built
Green Valley's 22nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Green Valley, see the exposure-zones guide.