Kewaskum, WI
Kewaskum, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Kewaskum at the 37th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,605 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Kewaskum at the 38th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Kewaskum's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Kewaskum (82.4% of 1,605 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 15% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Kewaskum ranks
Compare Kewaskum's two percentiles: 87th within Wisconsin, only 37th nationally — a gap of 50 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kewaskum ranks 19,873 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,754 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 105 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Kewaskum
Kewaskum's moderate wildfire rating (37th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 82.4% of Kewaskum'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.
Where Kewaskum's figures come from
Kewaskum's 37th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Kewaskum's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.