Menomonee Falls, WI
How exposed is Menomonee Falls to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Menomonee Falls lands at the 31st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 16,070 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Menomonee Falls at the 33rd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Menomonee Falls's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 53.4% of Menomonee Falls's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 23.1% Direct and 23.5% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 16,070 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Menomonee Falls compares
Menomonee Falls's 67th-percentile standing inside Wisconsin outpaces its 31st 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, Menomonee Falls ranks 21,795 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 908 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 266 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Menomonee Falls and the insurance market
At the 31st national percentile, Menomonee Falls 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
Menomonee Falls's 53.4% 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
Menomonee Falls's 31st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Menomonee Falls, see the exposure-zones guide.