Pewaukee, WI
How exposed is Pewaukee to wildfire?
USFS scores Pewaukee at the 32nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 6,305 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Pewaukee's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 33rd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
49.7% of Pewaukee's 6,305 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 42.1% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 6,305 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Pewaukee compares
Within Wisconsin, Pewaukee ranks higher (72nd percentile) than it does nationally (32nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pewaukee ranks 21,418 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,752 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 229 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
Pewaukee's moderate rating (32nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Pewaukee
Pewaukee's 49.7% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 6,305 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Pewaukee. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Pewaukee, see the exposure-zones guide.