Gresham, WI
Gresham, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Gresham sits at the 25th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 367 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Gresham at the 24th percentile, close to its 25th-percentile risk score.
Where Gresham's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 59.1% of Gresham's 367 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 39.2% Direct and 1.6% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Gresham compares
Gresham's 49th-percentile standing inside Wisconsin outpaces its 25th 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, Gresham ranks 23,715 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,933 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 415 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Gresham
At the 25th national percentile, Gresham rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Gresham
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Gresham (59.1% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Gresham's 23,715-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Gresham, see the exposure-zones guide.