Iron Ridge, WI
Iron Ridge, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Iron Ridge's 457 buildings earn a 28th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Iron Ridge's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 29th percentile nationally.
Iron Ridge's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 86.4% of Iron Ridge's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 13.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Iron Ridge against the rest of the country
Compare Iron Ridge's two percentiles: 59th within Wisconsin, only 28th nationally — a gap of 31 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Iron Ridge ranks 22,676 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,144 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 334 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Iron Ridge
Iron Ridge's moderate rating (28th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 86.4% of Iron Ridge outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 457 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Iron Ridge. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Iron Ridge, see the exposure-zones guide.