Muskego, WI
Muskego, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Muskego 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 10,845 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Muskego's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 32nd percentile nationally.
Where Muskego's buildings actually sit
Of Muskego's 10,845 counted buildings, 41.7% carry Direct exposure and only 31.7% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first. At 10,845 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Muskego against the rest of the country
Within Wisconsin, Muskego ranks higher (66th percentile) than it does nationally (31st) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Muskego ranks 21,890 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,460 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 275 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Muskego
Muskego's moderate wildfire rating (31st 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.
Hardening a home in Muskego
Because Direct exposure dominates in Muskego (41.7%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Muskego's 21,890-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Muskego, see the exposure-zones guide.