Menasha, WI
How exposed is Menasha to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Menasha lands at the 25th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 8,922 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Menasha at the 27th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Menasha's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 97.3% of Menasha's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 2.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 8,922 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Menasha compares
Menasha's 48th-percentile standing inside Wisconsin outpaces its 25th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Menasha ranks 23,779 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,866 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 424 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Menasha's moderate wildfire rating (25th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Menasha's 97.3% 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 Menasha's 23,779-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Menasha, see the exposure-zones guide.