Junction City, WI
How exposed is Junction City to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Junction City at the 30th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 319 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 Junction City at the 30th percentile, close to its 30th-percentile risk score.
Junction City's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Junction City's buildings (44.2%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Junction City compares
Junction City's 65th-percentile standing inside Wisconsin outpaces its 30th 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, Junction City ranks 21,982 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,138 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 282 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Junction City and the insurance market
Junction City's moderate rating (30th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Junction City
Because 44.2% of Junction City's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Junction City's 21,982-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Junction City, see the exposure-zones guide.