Packwaukee, WI
How exposed is Packwaukee to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Packwaukee lands at the 38th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 228 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Packwaukee at the 39th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Packwaukee's building exposure, zone by zone
228 buildings are counted in Packwaukee, and 69.7% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 28.5% in Direct exposure or the 1.8% rated Minimal.
How Packwaukee compares
Packwaukee's 89th-percentile standing inside Wisconsin outpaces its 38th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Packwaukee ranks 19,464 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,877 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 90 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Packwaukee and the insurance market
Packwaukee's moderate wildfire rating (38th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 69.7% of Packwaukee'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 228 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Packwaukee. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Packwaukee, see the exposure-zones guide.