Nekoosa, WI
Nekoosa wildfire risk explained
Nekoosa sits at the 46th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,322 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Nekoosa at the 45th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Nekoosa's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 47.1% of Nekoosa's 1,322 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 36% Direct and 16.9% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Nekoosa compares
Within Wisconsin, Nekoosa ranks higher (96th percentile) than it does nationally (46th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Nekoosa ranks 17,195 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,966 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 33 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Nekoosa
Nekoosa's elevated rating (46th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 47.1% of Nekoosa's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Nekoosa's 46th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Nekoosa, see the exposure-zones guide.