Menomonie, WI
Menomonie wildfire risk explained
Menomonie sits at the 15th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 5,238 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Menomonie's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 16th percentile nationally.
Where Menomonie's buildings actually sit
Menomonie rates 39.4% Minimal exposure against just 22.5% Direct and 38.1% Indirect — of 5,238 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 5,238 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Menomonie against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Menomonie's 15th national percentile and its 18th percentile inside Wisconsin, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Menomonie ranks 26,682 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,292 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 665 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
At the 15th national percentile, Menomonie rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 39.4% of Menomonie outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Menomonie's figures come from
Menomonie's 15th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Menomonie's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.