Kingston, WI
How exposed is Kingston to wildfire?
Kingston sits at the 42nd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 250 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Kingston at the 44th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Kingston's buildings actually sit
Of Kingston's 250 counted buildings, 48.4% carry Direct exposure and only 3.2% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Kingston compares
Compare Kingston's two percentiles: 94th within Wisconsin, only 42nd nationally — a gap of 51 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kingston ranks 18,172 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,158 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 53 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Kingston and the insurance market
Kingston's elevated wildfire rating (42nd 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
Kingston's 48.4% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kingston's 18,172-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Kingston, see the exposure-zones guide.