Pleasant Prairie, WI
Pleasant Prairie, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Pleasant Prairie lands at the 40th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 9,913 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Pleasant Prairie's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 40th percentile nationally.
Where Pleasant Prairie's buildings actually sit
Pleasant Prairie rates 61.2% Minimal exposure against just 37% Direct and 1.8% Indirect — of 9,913 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 9,913 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Pleasant Prairie compares
Within Wisconsin, Pleasant Prairie ranks higher (91st percentile) than it does nationally (40th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pleasant Prairie ranks 18,897 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,633 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 71 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pleasant Prairie
Pleasant Prairie's elevated wildfire rating (40th 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.
Hardening a home in Pleasant Prairie
Even with 61.2% of Pleasant Prairie outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pleasant Prairie's 18,897-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Pleasant Prairie, see the exposure-zones guide.