Pulaski, WI
How exposed is Pulaski to wildfire?
USFS scores Pulaski at the 8th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,555 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pulaski at the 7th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Pulaski's buildings actually sit
Pulaski rates 87.9% Minimal exposure against just 12.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,555 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Pulaski compares
There's little gap between Pulaski's 8th national percentile and its 4th percentile inside Wisconsin, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pulaski ranks 29,141 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,940 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 781 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pulaski
Pulaski's low wildfire rating (8th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Pulaski's 87.9% 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.
Where Pulaski's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pulaski's 29,141-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pulaski's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.