Mount Pleasant, WI
Mount Pleasant wildfire risk explained
Mount Pleasant's 11,698 buildings earn a 21st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mount Pleasant at the 23rd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Mount Pleasant's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Mount Pleasant's buildings (77.5% of 11,698) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 11,698 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Mount Pleasant compares
Mount Pleasant scores 21st nationally and 36th within Wisconsin — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mount Pleasant ranks 24,822 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,337 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 522 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Mount Pleasant and the insurance market
Mount Pleasant's moderate wildfire rating (21st 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 77.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Mount Pleasant gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Mount Pleasant's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mount Pleasant's 24,822-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mount Pleasant's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.