Lake Koshkonong, WI
Lake Koshkonong, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lake Koshkonong at the 36th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,276 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 Lake Koshkonong at the 37th percentile, close to its 36th-percentile risk score.
Lake Koshkonong's building exposure, zone by zone
62.7% of Lake Koshkonong's 1,276 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 800 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 10.5% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 26.8% are Minimal.
How Lake Koshkonong compares
Compare Lake Koshkonong's two percentiles: 85th within Wisconsin, only 36th nationally — a gap of 49 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lake Koshkonong ranks 20,189 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,220 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 126 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lake Koshkonong
Lake Koshkonong's moderate wildfire rating (36th 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.
Hardening a home in Lake Koshkonong
With 62.7% of Lake Koshkonong 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.
Where Lake Koshkonong's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lake Koshkonong's 20,189-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lake Koshkonong's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.