Palmyra, WI
How exposed is Palmyra to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Palmyra at the 34th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 886 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Palmyra at the 35th percentile, close to its 34th-percentile risk score.
Where Palmyra's buildings actually sit
76.5% of Palmyra's 886 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 21.3% Direct and 2.1% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Palmyra against the rest of the country
Within Wisconsin, Palmyra ranks higher (78th percentile) than it does nationally (34th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Palmyra ranks 20,881 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,852 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 181 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 34th national percentile, Palmyra rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 76.5% of Palmyra'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Palmyra's 20,881-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Palmyra, see the exposure-zones guide.