Manawa, WI
How exposed is Manawa to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Manawa lands at the 22nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 776 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Manawa's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 22nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 80.5% of Manawa's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 19.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Manawa ranks
Manawa's risk sits at a similar level relative to Wisconsin (36th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (22nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Manawa ranks 24,758 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,862 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 516 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Manawa
At the 22nd national percentile, Manawa rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Manawa's 80.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Manawa's 24,758-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Manawa, see the exposure-zones guide.