Lake Ivanhoe, WI
How exposed is Lake Ivanhoe to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Lake Ivanhoe lands at the 28th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 218 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lake Ivanhoe at the 28th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Lake Ivanhoe's buildings actually sit
53.7% of Lake Ivanhoe's 218 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 117 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 46.3% are Minimal.
Where Lake Ivanhoe ranks
Compare Lake Ivanhoe'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, Lake Ivanhoe ranks 22,648 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,222 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 331 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
Lake Ivanhoe's moderate wildfire rating (28th 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
With 53.7% of Lake Ivanhoe in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Lake Ivanhoe's 28th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Lake Ivanhoe, see the exposure-zones guide.