Hustisford, WI
Hustisford wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Hustisford at the 38th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 572 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hustisford at the 40th percentile, close to its 38th-percentile risk score.
Hustisford's building exposure, zone by zone
Hustisford rates 80.4% Minimal exposure against just 19.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 572 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Hustisford ranks
Within Wisconsin, Hustisford ranks higher (89th percentile) than it does nationally (38th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hustisford ranks 19,527 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,229 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 91 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hustisford
Hustisford's moderate wildfire rating (38th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Hustisford
With 80.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Hustisford 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hustisford's 19,527-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Hustisford, see the exposure-zones guide.