Little Sturgeon, WI
How exposed is Little Sturgeon to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Little Sturgeon at the 22nd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 379 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Little Sturgeon's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 23rd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Little Sturgeon's 379 counted buildings, 69.4% carry Direct exposure and only 30.6% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Little Sturgeon ranks
Compare Little Sturgeon's two percentiles: 38th within Wisconsin, only 22nd nationally — a gap of 16 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Little Sturgeon ranks 24,569 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,675 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 500 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Little Sturgeon
Little Sturgeon's moderate wildfire rating (22nd 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
Little Sturgeon's 69.4% 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 Little Sturgeon's 24,569-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Little Sturgeon, see the exposure-zones guide.