Lyons, WI
How exposed is Lyons to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Lyons 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 446 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Lyons at the 28th percentile, close to its 28th-percentile risk score.
Lyons's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 62.1% of Lyons's 446 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 36.1% Direct and 1.8% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Lyons against the rest of the country
Within Wisconsin, Lyons ranks higher (58th percentile) than it does nationally (28th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lyons ranks 22,709 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,359 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 343 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Lyons and the insurance market
Lyons's moderate rating (28th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 62.1% of Lyons's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Lyons's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 446 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Lyons. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lyons's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.