North Hudson, WI
North Hudson wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, North Hudson lands at the 34th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,459 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, North Hudson's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 36th percentile nationally.
North Hudson's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 67.2% of North Hudson's 1,459 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 31.9% Direct and 0.8% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where North Hudson ranks
Compare North Hudson's two percentiles: 79th within Wisconsin, only 34th nationally — a gap of 45 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, North Hudson ranks 20,818 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,358 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 172 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
North Hudson and the insurance market
North Hudson's moderate rating (34th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 67.2% of North Hudson'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
North Hudson'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 indirect exposure implies beyond North Hudson, see the exposure-zones guide.