Nashotah, WI
Nashotah, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Nashotah sits at the 34th 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 561 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Nashotah's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 36th percentile nationally.
Nashotah's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Nashotah's 561 counted buildings, 49.6% carry Direct exposure and only 12.3% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Nashotah compares
Within Wisconsin, Nashotah ranks higher (79th percentile) than it does nationally (34th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Nashotah ranks 20,755 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,400 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 166 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Nashotah
Nashotah's moderate wildfire rating (34th 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Nashotah (49.6%), 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
Nashotah's 34th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Nashotah, see the exposure-zones guide.