Mequon, WI
How exposed is Mequon to wildfire?
Mequon sits at the 25th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 10,658 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mequon at the 27th percentile, close to its 25th-percentile risk score.
Mequon's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Mequon's 10,658 counted buildings, 61.8% carry Direct exposure and only 30.1% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first. At 10,658 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Mequon against the rest of the country
Mequon's 49th-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, Mequon ranks 23,686 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,496 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 412 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Mequon and the insurance market
Mequon's moderate rating (25th 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
Mequon's 61.8% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 10,658 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mequon. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Mequon, see the exposure-zones guide.