Odanah, WI
How exposed is Odanah to wildfire?
Odanah's 42 buildings earn a 14th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Odanah at the 14th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Odanah's buildings actually sit
Of Odanah's 42 counted buildings, 100% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Odanah compares
Odanah's risk sits at a similar level relative to Wisconsin (15th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (14th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Odanah ranks 27,092 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,129 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 690 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Odanah and the insurance market
Odanah's low rating (14th 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
Odanah's 100% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Odanah's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Odanah's 27,092-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Odanah's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.