Pound, WI
How exposed is Pound to wildfire?
Pound sits at the 13th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 252 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Pound at the 13th percentile, close to its 13th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Pound rates 67.9% Minimal exposure against just 32.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 252 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Pound ranks
There's little gap between Pound'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, Pound ranks 27,376 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,091 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 704 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
Pound's low rating (13th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Pound's 67.9% 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
Pound's 13th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Pound, see the exposure-zones guide.