Lake Wazeecha, WI
How exposed is Lake Wazeecha to wildfire?
Lake Wazeecha sits at the 45th 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 1,787 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (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 Wazeecha at the 44th percentile, close to its 45th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
1,787 buildings are counted in Lake Wazeecha, and 73.9% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 26.1% rated Minimal.
Lake Wazeecha against the rest of the country
Compare Lake Wazeecha's two percentiles: 96th within Wisconsin, only 45th nationally — a gap of 51 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lake Wazeecha ranks 17,415 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,106 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 37 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Lake Wazeecha and the insurance market
Lake Wazeecha's elevated rating (45th 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 Lake Wazeecha
Because Direct exposure dominates in Lake Wazeecha (73.9%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lake Wazeecha's 17,415-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Lake Wazeecha, see the exposure-zones guide.