Reedsville, WI
Reedsville wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Reedsville lands at the 9th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 715 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Reedsville at the 9th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Reedsville's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 74.3% of Reedsville's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 10.6% Direct and 15.1% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Reedsville against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Reedsville's 9th national percentile and its 5th percentile inside Wisconsin, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Reedsville ranks 28,699 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,518 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 769 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Reedsville
At the 9th national percentile, Reedsville rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Reedsville's 74.3% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 715 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Reedsville. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Reedsville, see the exposure-zones guide.