Reedsburg, WI
How exposed is Reedsburg to wildfire?
USFS scores Reedsburg at the 23rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 4,165 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Reedsburg at the 24th national percentile — 1 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
4,165 buildings are counted in Reedsburg, and 70% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 12.9% in Direct exposure or the 17.1% rated Minimal.
How Reedsburg compares
Within Wisconsin, Reedsburg ranks higher (43rd percentile) than it does nationally (23rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Reedsburg ranks 24,224 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,087 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 465 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Reedsburg
Reedsburg's moderate wildfire rating (23rd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Reedsburg's 70% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Reedsburg's 24,224-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Reedsburg, see the exposure-zones guide.