La Farge, WI
How exposed is La Farge to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts La Farge at the 29th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 549 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 La Farge at the 31st percentile, close to its 29th-percentile risk score.
Where La Farge's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 73% of La Farge's 549 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 27% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where La Farge ranks
Within Wisconsin, La Farge ranks higher (62nd percentile) than it does nationally (29th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, La Farge ranks 22,363 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,594 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 308 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
La Farge's moderate rating (29th 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 La Farge
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in La Farge (73% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
La Farge's 29th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond La Farge, see the exposure-zones guide.