North Freedom, WI
North Freedom, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, North Freedom lands at the 24th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 388 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks North Freedom at the 25th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
North Freedom's building exposure, zone by zone
North Freedom rates 49% Minimal exposure against just 46.7% Direct and 4.4% Indirect — of 388 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where North Freedom ranks
Compare North Freedom's two percentiles: 46th within Wisconsin, only 24th nationally — a gap of 22 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, North Freedom ranks 23,971 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,458 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 445 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in North Freedom
At the 24th national percentile, North Freedom rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in North Freedom
North Freedom's 49% 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
North Freedom's 24th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond North Freedom, see the exposure-zones guide.