Greendale, WI
Greendale wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Greendale at the 26th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 5,122 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Greendale at the 29th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Greendale's building exposure, zone by zone
Greendale rates 86.9% Minimal exposure against just 13.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 5,122 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 5,122 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Greendale ranks
Within Wisconsin, Greendale ranks higher (52nd percentile) than it does nationally (26th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Greendale ranks 23,402 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,369 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 391 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 26th national percentile, Greendale 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
With 86.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Greendale 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
Greendale's 26th-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 Greendale, see the exposure-zones guide.