Port Washington, WI
Port Washington wildfire risk explained
Port Washington's 4,682 buildings earn a 13th-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 Port Washington at the 14th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Port Washington rates 95.6% Minimal exposure against just 4.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 4,682 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Port Washington compares
There's little gap between Port Washington's 13th national percentile and its 13th percentile inside Wisconsin, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Port Washington ranks 27,313 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,636 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 701 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Port Washington and the insurance market
Port Washington's low wildfire rating (13th 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 Port Washington
Port Washington's 95.6% 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.
Where Port Washington's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,682 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Port Washington. The exposure-zones guide covers what Port Washington's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.