Hawkins, WI
How exposed is Hawkins to wildfire?
Hawkins's 318 buildings earn a 11th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hawkins at the 11th percentile, close to its 11th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
53.1% of Hawkins's 318 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 169 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 46.9% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Hawkins against the rest of the country
Hawkins scores 11th nationally and 8th within Wisconsin — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hawkins ranks 28,130 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,169 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 745 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hawkins
At the 11th national percentile, Hawkins rates low 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 Hawkins
With 53.1% of Hawkins in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hawkins's 28,130-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Hawkins, see the exposure-zones guide.