New Berlin, WI
New Berlin, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores New Berlin at the 30th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 16,148 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks New Berlin at the 32nd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
New Berlin's building exposure, zone by zone
New Berlin rates 61.6% Minimal exposure against just 36.7% Direct and 1.7% Indirect — of 16,148 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 16,148 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where New Berlin ranks
Compare New Berlin's two percentiles: 65th within Wisconsin, only 30th nationally — a gap of 35 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, New Berlin ranks 21,983 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 903 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 283 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in New Berlin
New Berlin's moderate rating (30th 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
New Berlin's 61.6% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 16,148 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for New Berlin. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond New Berlin, see the exposure-zones guide.